Life on the OutSide

With the release of Oracle Solaris 11.4 Beta and the move over to OpenLDAP, you will notice ldap commands have changed. To help myself and may be some others I will document the changes for reference.

Ref: Using ldapsearch to do an LDAP Search using TLS/SSL
Updated: How to Connect Securely to LDAP using PHP
How To Manage and Use LDAP Servers with OpenLDAP Utilities


Solaris 11.3

 # ldapsearch -h ldap.dcs.bbk.ac.uk -p 636 -Z -P /var/ldap \ 
 -b "dc=dcs,dc=bbk,dc=ac,dc=uk" \ 
 -D "CN=auser,OU=Users,DC=dcs,DC=bbk,DC=ac,DC=uk" \ 
 -w MyPassword \ 
 "samaccountname=auser" uidNumber 
 version: 1 
 dn: CN=auser,OU=Users,DC=dcs,DC=bbk,DC=ac,DC=uk 
 uidNumber: 26575 

Solaris 11.4

 # export LDAPTLS_REQCERT=never 
 # ldapsearch -x -H ldaps://ldap.dcs.bbk.ac.uk:636 \ 
 -b "dc=dcs,dc=bbk,dc=ac,dc=uk" \ 
 -D "CN=auser,OU=Users,DC=dcs,DC=bbk,DC=ac,DC=uk" \ 
 -w MyPassword \ 
 "samaccountname=auser" uidNumber 
 # extended LDIF 
 # 
 # LDAPv3 
 # base with scope subtree 
 # filter: samaccountname=auser 
 # requesting: uidNumber 
 # 
 # auser, MSc, StudentUsers, dcs.bbk.ac.uk 
 dn: CN=auser,OU=Users,DC=dcs,DC=bbk,DC=ac,DC=uk 
 uidNumber: 26575 
 # search reference 
 ref: ldaps://dcs.bbk.ac.uk/CN=Configuration,DC=dcs,DC=bbk,DC=ac,DC=uk 
 # search result 
 search: 2 
 result: 0 Success 
 # numResponses: 5 
 # numEntries: 1 
 # numReferences: 3 

Solaris 11.3

 ldapmodify -r -h ldap.dcs.bbk.ac.uk -p 636 -Z -P /var/ldap \ 
 -D 'cn=root,ou=users,dc=dcs,dc=bbk,dc=ac,dc=uk' -w MyPassword 

Solaris 11.4

 ldapmodify -x -H ldaps://ldap.dcs.bbk.ac.uk:636 \ 
 -D 'cn=root,ou=users,dc=dcs,dc=bbk,dc=ac,dc=uk' -w MyPasssord 

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