hi

I'm trying to add a shared address book to my squirrelMail web interface. For that i have to fetch name,surname,email,nickname and additional info of the all the users in the ldap database and write them into a local file. can anybody please give me a example shell script for doing above task ??
( since I'm not familier with LDAP it's really a big task to me !)

Thanks in Advance.

You can use ldapsearch to query ldap. Running:
will give you all the entries. You can the refine your search to the attributes you want, like:

Thanx a lot for the quick reply !!

Does following command give details of all the users in the ldap database ?

ldapsearch -x -h hostname -b 'dc=domain,dc=com' '(objectclass=*)' nickname cn sn mail telephoneNumber


Currently I don't have access rights to the ldap server. since i can't imagine how the output of the above command would be.

so can any one please give me a example shell script to store the output of the above command in following manner for each user in a text file.

nickname|firstname|surname|email|telephonenumber

or else the format of the output of the above command

Thanks in Advance !

The output of the above command is like this:

# uid, people, domain.com
dn: uid=user,ou=people,dc=domain,dc=com
sn: surname
mail: user@domain.com
cn: common-name
nickname: whatever
telephoneNumber: 12345

I guess someone with good scripting knowledge could make a script from the above output to help you do what you want.

Regards

Thanx a lot !