Identify LDAP naming contexts using ldapsearch

Contributed by qmchenry August 28, 2003  
Tagged: UNIX

Using ldapsearch from the command line, it is possible to find all of the naming contexts of the directory server (lowest level distinguished names like o=tech-recipes).

The simplest version of this command (running ldapsearch locally on the LDAP server itself):

ldapsearch -s base -b "" objectclass=top

The resulting text will display the naming contexts, one per line, prefixed by namingcontext:

If you are running ldapsearch on a remote system, you can specify the directory server host (say, dir-serv) by adding

-h dir-serv

before the objectclass=top argument.