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Getting the LDAP distinguished name for an AD user

Sometimes when I’m integrating Macs (and other systems) with Active Directory they ask for the full LDAP distinguished name of the user I’m using to authenticate. This is the user name in the traditional LDAP format: cn=username,ou=something,DC=amsys,DC=com (for example). In

Recovering A Corrupt LDAP Database On OS X Server

By Richard Mallion A couple of times recently I have been asked to recover Open Directory running on Mac OS X Server. Each time the server was an Open Directory Master and its LDAP database had become corrupted, causing authentication