hi there,

i'm looking for a script that will grab user information from MS active directory and pipe it into a text document. i was thinking it could maybe use the openLDAP tools to bind with ADS and then pull down the information. i'm hopeless with the openldap tools so even if someone could just post the command for binding to a LDAP server and then searching for the 'mail' attribute and outputting it that would be great.

okay, so far i've got this command

[root@fedora bash]# ldapsearch -LLL -x -D "cn=moodleuser,dc=example,dc=com" -h senior-server.example.com -b "dc=example,dc=com" -w Password mail=*@* -S mail=*@* sAMAccountName mail > /home/ldap/output.txt

and it's giving me this output

dn: cn=moodleuser,dc=example,dc=com
mail: moodle.user@example.com
sAMAccountName: moodleuser

what i REALLY want is just

moodleuser: moodle.user

what i really want is to be able to edit the output of the 'ldapsearch' command, but if thats not possable i was thinking that maybe a second script would be good. one that edits out the unnecessary information? so i'm looking for maybe a command that counts characters and lines or something like that and a command that can delete characters.