From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 04:05:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7568A106564A for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:05:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhall@socket.net) Received: from mf5.socket.net (mf5b.socket.net [216.106.26.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54A678FC17 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:05:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhall@socket.net) Received: from [10.129.40.202] (216.106.31.239.reverse.socket.net [216.106.31.239]) by mf5.socket.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99DB159268; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:05:25 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <9DFC15B7-CA66-4717-956D-1A761E8539AD@socket.net> From: Jay Hall To: Olivier Nicole In-Reply-To: <200901190353.n0J3rwFX083175@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:04:50 -0600 References: <200901190353.n0J3rwFX083175@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ldapsearch question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:05:26 -0000 On Jan 18, 2009, at 9:53 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: > That's right, (!(mail=*)) means everything where mail is null. > > You would like to search for mail=*, meaning everything where mail is > not null. I receive the same results using mail=*. Following is the latest ldapsearch command. ldapsearch -D "cn=admin_user,cn=users,dc=xx,dc=com" -x -w "password" - h 10.129.10.42 -p 3268 -b 'dc=abc,dc=com' -s sub '(! (objectclass=computer))' '(mail=*)' dn mail Is it possible to search on the attribute, mail, not being present? Thanks, Jay