I don&#39;t think it&#39;s a good approach using the root account to run such a simple script.<br><br>Maybe it would be better to perform a search operation against the server. The code below might work for you:<br><br>ldapsearch -Hldaps://<a href="http://your.server.com/" target="_blank">your.server.com</a> -x -b dc=yourDITroot &quot;objectclass=*&quot; dn -D cn=yourRootDN,dc=yourDITroot -W | grep numEntries<br>

<br><br>Regards<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:50 AM, Adrian Overbury &lt;<a href="mailto:adrian@inomial.com">adrian@inomial.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Well, I don&#39;t know necessarily what the *best* way is, but I can tell you what the simplest way in. &nbsp;As root on whatever server the openLDAP database is on, run this command:<br>
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slapcat | grep &quot;^dn: &quot; | wc -l<br>
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That will dump the entire ldap database, grab every &quot;dn: ...&quot; line, which every object will have exactly one of, and run it through wc (the word-counter) and tell it to count the number of lines.<br>
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Michael Arndt wrote:<br>
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Hello *,<br>
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what is a &quot;good&quot; way to enumerate all objects in an open ldap<br>
in order to get a total count of defined objects ?<br>
( how many objects ..)<br>
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TIA<br>
Michael<br>
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PS: Sorry if i should know this by reading basic infos<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Andre Augusto da Silva Pereira<br>Linux Certified Professional - LPIC-1<br>+55 91 8112-6691