Problem
Looking for a given user, searching my first name.
Solution
ldapsearch can match on any field, within the LDAP record and perform wildcard matches.
Example
Here are some more examples:
ldapsearch -L -x -v -D’cn=Manager,dc=demo,dc=net’ -w secret -b’dc=demo,dc=net’ -s sub ‘givenname=*' givenname sn mail
Reference
[tags]ldapsearch syntax, openldap ldapsearch, LDAP Training School[/tags]