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

Basic LDAP syntax demo part2

Reference

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• LDAP Docs – Quick Start Guide