On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 08:57:59PM +0000, Zhang,Jun wrote:
ldapsearch -x -b dc=myinstitute,dc=edu uid=user1 gidnumber gives me gidnumber=1234 I then tried, ldapsearch -x -b dc=myinstitute,dc=edu "(&(objectclass=groupofnames)(gidnumber=1234))" intending to find out the name of the group, but I got nothing.
Did the DN in your first search have a 'groupofnames' objectclass?
Thanks Jun