10.16. Finding the Linked Attributes
Problem
You want to find attributes that are linked.
Solution
Using a graphical user interface
Open LDP.
From the menu, select Connection → Connect.
For Server, enter the name of a domain controller (or leave blank to do a serverless bind).
For Port, enter 389.
Click OK.
From the menu, select Connection → Bind.
Enter credentials of a domain user.
Click OK.
From the menu, select Browse → Search.
For BaseDN, type the
Schema
container DN (e.g., cn=schema,cn=configuration,dc=rallencorp,dc=com).For Scope, select One Level.
To find linked attributes, use the following for Filter:
(&(objectcategory=attributeSchema)(linkid=*))
Click Run.
Using a command-line interface
> dsquery * cn=schema,cn=configuration,<ForestRootDN
> -scope onelevel -filter[RETURN]
"(&(objectcategory=attributeSchema)(linkid=*))" -attr cn linkID
Using VBScript
' This code prints out all of the attributes that are linked ' and their corresponding linkID values set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE") strBase = "<LDAP://" & objRootDSE.Get("SchemaNamingContext") & ">;" strFilter = "(&(objectcategory=attributeSchema)(linkid=*));" strAttrs = "cn,linkid;" strScope = "onelevel" set objConn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") objConn.Provider = "ADsDSOObject" objConn.Open "Active Directory Provider" set objRS = objConn.Execute(strBase & strFilter & strAttrs & strScope) objRS.MoveFirst while Not objRS.EOF Wscript.Echo objRS.Fields(1).Value & " : " & objRS.Fields(0).Value objRS.MoveNext wend
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