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LDAP Query - ignore disabled users?

Asked by: Cardguy

How can I modify the following query to ignore disabled users in Active Directory?

<cfldap action="query"
    name="PhoneList"
    start="#Portal.LDAPOUStart#"
    attributes="cn,sn,givenname,department,telephoneNumber,mobile"
     sort="cn ASC"
    filter="(&(objectclass=user)(telephoneNumber=*))"
     server="#Portal.LDAPServer#"
     username="#Portal.LDAPQueryName#"
     password="#Portal.LDAPQueryPassword#">

Also, is it possible to have cold fusion cache this query?

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2004-07-16 at 13:59:35ID21061748
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Answers

 

by: shooksmPosted on 2004-07-16 at 14:39:10ID: 11572418

Depends on what field is being used to denote someone as being disabled and if it is exposed to ldap.  Try querying just your information and using attributes="*".  Then CFDUMP the query to see all the available fields.  Let me know what you find to help filter it out and I can help you to adjust your filter attribute.

 

by: CardguyPosted on 2004-07-19 at 05:32:51ID: 11582576

Hmm... I just did a dump of my account and of a disabled account.  I didn't see anything that indicated the account was disabled!  Here is the list of attributes it found.  THey all were basically the same between the two accounts.  Perhaps I should post this in the AD area?

whenCreated
userParameters (nothing obvious there)
objectCategory
badPwdCount
profilePath
codePage
scriptPath
objectGUID
adminCount
memberOf
instanceType
objectSid
badPasswordTime
dSCorePropagationData
company
objectClass
name
description
sn
initials
telephoneNumber
userAccountControl
primaryGroupID
lastLogon
accountExpires
lastLogoff
uSNChanged
lockoutTime
cn
msNPAllowDialin
title
logonCount
sAMAccountType
givenName
uSNCreated
displayName
userPrincipalName
pwdLastSet
whenChanged
department
countryCode
distinguishedName
logonHours
sAMAccountName

 

by: shooksmPosted on 2004-07-19 at 07:04:49ID: 11583340

Might need to talk to the server admin who setup your AD and see if they can expose the disabled field to ldap.  

 

by: CardguyPosted on 2004-07-19 at 07:06:35ID: 11583362

:-(  I am the server admin.  We are not AD experts here.  Perhaps I will post over in the AD area.

Quick question, so I can give you some points for the help.  Is there a way I can modify my query above to include both users and contacts?  I'm not sure how to convert "objectclass" to search multiple types.  Would I just repeat it in the filter?

Thanks

 

by: CardguyPosted on 2004-07-19 at 07:07:15ID: 11583379

And is it possible to have this query cached like other queries?

 

by: shooksmPosted on 2004-07-19 at 07:39:03ID: 11583681

The filter syntax to add contacts should look something like this:

filter="(&(!(objectclass=user)(objectclass=contacts))(telephoneNumber=*))"

As far as cacheing. CFLDAP created queries can not be cached that I know of.  You would have to write your own caching functionality.  This is pretty easy to accomplish.  You could use the CFWDDX tag to store the results of the CFLDAP query to a local file on the server.  Then just check the last modified date of the file to see if it has become stale.  If it has, requery using CFLDAP and freshen the cache file, else read from your cache file and use CFWDDX to convert the contents back to a Cold Fusion variable.  If you need some more direction, just let me know.

 

by: CardguyPosted on 2004-07-19 at 07:44:02ID: 11583732

Thanks.  That might be more than I need.  If there was a quick hit, I was going to do it.  The phone list is not accessed that often that it is an absolute requirement.

 

by: CardguyPosted on 2004-07-19 at 08:02:31ID: 11583938

Crap...just tested it.  It doesn't return anything.

 

by: CardguyPosted on 2004-07-19 at 08:04:05ID: 11583958

Well, I noticed that it should be contact not contacts.  I changed that, but it only returns the contacts and not the users.

 

by: shooksmPosted on 2004-07-19 at 08:23:31ID: 11584158

Oops.  The exclamation mark should be a pipe:

filter="(&(|(objectclass=user)(objectclass=contacts))(telephoneNumber=*))"

 

by: CardguyPosted on 2004-07-19 at 08:29:17ID: 11584225

:-)  That did it.  Doe the pipe signify an "or"?  I group the or's together with ( ) preceded by the pip and the and's together with the ( ) preceded with the &?

I'm basically trying to understand the syntax here.

 

by: shooksmPosted on 2004-07-19 at 08:36:08ID: 11584308

Yes the pipe means "or", & means "and" and the exclamation mark means "not".  Here is some more info that may help you out:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ad/ad/creating_a_query_filter.asp

 

by: UnTwstrPosted on 2004-08-23 at 16:01:57ID: 11876117

Not sure if its way too late, but the useraccountcontrol attribute will will tell you whether the account is active or not. A value of 512 is active, 514 is inactive & I think that 66048 means that the password never expires.

 

by: CardguyPosted on 2004-08-24 at 05:02:01ID: 11880300

THat seems close.  In some testing, I see the following:

Active:  512, 66048
Inactive:  513, 66050

Do you know where I can find a list of these attribute values?

 

by: UnTwstrPosted on 2004-08-24 at 09:07:06ID: 11883170

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/adschema/adschema/a_useraccountcontrol.asp

Note that:
0x00000200 ==> Default Account Type = 512 in decimal
0x00000002 ==> Account is disabled    = 002 in decimal

So, for a default account type (user) that is disabled, the value would be 514. This is the case that I have in my domain.

 

by: AndornagyPosted on 2005-05-02 at 02:53:02ID: 13907733


Use this for check UserAccountControl bits:

(&(objectCategory=user)(!UserAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))

 

by: CardguyPosted on 2005-05-02 at 05:14:37ID: 13908284

Wow...what the heck is that long string?

 

by: joshualeonePosted on 2005-08-29 at 13:57:09ID: 14779236

The following filter worked for me:
filter="(&(objectClass=user)(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2)))"

The other example of:
(&(objectCategory=user)(!UserAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))

did not work for me.

 

by: rickschererPosted on 2008-07-09 at 13:29:34ID: 21968001

I use this  query string to eliminate contacts and disabled users  (&(&(objectClass=user)(objectCategory=person))(!UserAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))

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