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Pelle Van Ketwich
Pelle Van Ketwich

Reputation: 3

How do i get my search result in alphabetical order with LDAP

this is what i have:

ldapsearch -x -LLL "(uid=z*)" cn | grep "^cn:" | sort -r --ignore-case | cut -c5-999

How do i get this result in Alphabetical order?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1271

Answers (1)

Michael Ströder
Michael Ströder

Reputation: 1318

Depending on the LDAP server and its configuration you can try to use the so-called server-side sorting control as defined in RFC 2891.

Note that not all LDAP servers support this or have activated it. E.g. OpenLDAP server has to be configured with overlay slapo-sssvlv.

Furthermore an ORDERING matching rule has to be specified suitable for attribute type used for sorting. Either it's specified by default in the subschema or has to be specified in the search request.

This example without ordering matching rule results in error:

$ ldapsearch -LLL -E sss=-uid
Inappropriate matching (18)
Additional information: serverSort control: No ordering rule

This works:

$ ldapsearch -LLL -E sss=-uid:caseIgnoreOrderingMatch

Upvotes: 3

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