Re: Can I read the schema using LDAP?

[Thomas Gagné <tgagne@wideopenwest.com>]

That worked.  Thanks.  Now to analyze the output to see what it just did.

Out of curiosity, will that command work with other non-OpenLDAP 
directories?

David Smith wrote:

> <snip>
>
> To see OpenLDAP schema in the raw, try this command (all one line):
>
> ldapsearch -h localhost -x -b cn=subschema -s base 
> objectClass=subschema matchingRules ldapSyntaxes objectClasses 
> attributeTypes
>
> There are plenty of implementations of LDAP schema parsers out there 
> in nearly every language. Here's one in PHP (from phpLDAPadmin):
>
> <http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/phpldapadmin/phpldapadmin/schema_functions.php?rev=1.57&view=auto>