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Filter Question - Wildcard search in memberOf
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I'm stuck with a filter search problem. I need to be able to write a simple LDAP filter that will search through groups on wildcard match? For instance, if the group has 'VPN' in the dn, I'll want to get that user?

Basically, I want to do something like:

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(memberOf=cn=*VPN*)


This obviously doesn't work. I'm guessing since it's not a really a string like cn=bob*.

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to use * in your filter, that field must be indexed, by default I don't think memberOf is, if you can index it then it should work fine.
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to use * in your filter, that field must be indexed, by default I don't think memberOf is, if you can index it then it should work fine.


So indexing memberOf is possible? I'll start looking on the procedure.

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are you using Active directory? if so I have no idea how to do it there, but in Open LDAP yes you can index it
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$filter="cn=VPN*";
USE THIS CODE IT WOULD SURELY WORK
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$filter="cn=VPN*";
USE THIS CODE IT WOULD SURELY WORK


Hello

Thanks for the reply. This does not work. This will return the group containers.. but I need to know the members that are members of these groups. We're going to be working on indexing memberOf on the test AD server this week.. hopefully.

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