Searching Active Directory

[Kerry]

I’m looking for a way to “search” our active directory domain. I’ve looked at using dscl but haven’t found a way to do quite what I want.

Basically on our intranet we have a phone search. At the moment it searches a MySQL database that is separately maintained. I would like to find a way to make it so I can search the domain and return the phone number based on a last name, all the users listed at a specific site, etc.

Address Book seems to have this functionality but I haven’t found a way to script the search that includes the AD…

Any suggestions or ideas?

[Kerry]

Address Book does show results (including the phone number) if I search the Directory. However, what I would like to do is write a script (ideally perl) that does the same thing in the background for a website.

I may have finally stumble on my own answer today. I think if I ran multiple searches (FirstName, LastName, Location, etc.), take the results and then read the PhoneNumber for each user I could put it all together. Ideally there is a better way or if I was really lucky someone has already tried to do this and has some code that would save me some time.

Example of what I’m thinking right now…
-search /Contact/Users LastName “SomeName”

then for each of the results (after ruling out duplicates)
-read /Contact/Users/SomeName PhoneNumber

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