Re: Getting directory-base(s) / context(s) from server.

[Bjorn O. G. <bjo...@it...>]

Heiko Noordhof:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible with python-ldap to request de directory-context(s)a 
> certain ldap-server provides? What I mean is: say my openldap server 
> serves 2 databases:
>    dc=example,dc=com
>    dc=heiks,dc=nl
> 
> Then, when my app (using python-ldap) connects to the server, is it 
> possible to retrieve these DN's? If so, how? If not, wouldn't it be a 
> nice feature?

The equivalent search using ldapsearch (commandline utility) is
ldapsearch -x -b "" -s base "objectClass=*" namingContexts

Explanation: empty base, base-search (i.e. not one-level or subtree
search).. then search for basically any object and retrieve only
attribute namingContexts.

The above searchfilter and attribute retrieval is only valid for
OpenLDAP. Other LDAP-implementations differ slightly. We use this
feature in Luma(.sourceforge.net) for automatic fetching the suffixes a
given server handles.

--
regards
 
Bjorn Ove Grotan