Neat! You found every TIL snippet that I have written about ldap.
I really love ldapsearch but I mostly use it to get in, solve the problem and move on. I wanted to take a moment to get to know ldapsearch just a little bit better. You can follow along and run all of these commands and inspect the output yourself! I'm using the onlne test LDAP server maintained by the fine folks at Forumsys. The documentation about it is pretty light but that's OK: it's a great environment to be curious in and we have enough information to get started. …