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Re: Check for existence of a group

To: openldap-technical@openldap.org
Subject: Re: Check for existence of a group
From: Buchan Milne <bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 19:12:19 +0200
Cc: Alex Chen <alex_chen@filemaker.com>
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On Tuesday 05 May 2009 07:41:18 Alex Chen wrote:
> I am new to LDAP so please bear with me if my question sounds too basic.
> I want to make sure if a group already exist in the directory before a
> member is allowed to be added.
> I guess the API to use would be ldap_search_s (I want to sue synchronous
> search).
> What kind of filter syntax should I use?

If you know the DN, then do a search with basedn of the DN of the group, with 
scope base, with filter (objectclass=*).

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