Querying Windows Active Directory server using ldapsearch from command line
The short answer is "yes". A sample ldapsearch
command to query an Active Directory server is:
ldapsearch \
-x -h ldapserver.mydomain.com \
-D "[email protected]" \
-W \
-b "cn=users,dc=mydomain,dc=com" \
-s sub "(cn=*)" cn mail sn
This would connect to an AD server at hostname ldapserver.mydomain.com
as user [email protected]
, prompt for the password on the command line and show name and email details for users in the cn=users,dc=mydomain,dc=com
subtree.
See Managing LDAP from the Command Line on Linux for more samples. See LDAP Query Basics for Microsoft Exchange documentation for samples using LDAP queries with Active Directory.
You could query an LDAP server from the command line with ldap-utils: ldapsearch, ldapadd, ldapmodify