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Scott Keck-Warren
Asked: 2010-07-28 13:04:17 +0800 CST

Clear SearchPath on OSX Client

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I am working on a script that verifies a computer is connection correctly to both our AD domain and our OpenDirectory server. I bind to the two services using dsconfigad and dsconfigldap and then set the search path using the following commands:

/usr/bin/dscl /Search -create / SearchPolicy CSPSearchPath
/usr/bin/dscl /Search -append / CSPSearchPath "/Active Directory/All Domains"
/usr/bin/dscl /Search/Contacts -create / SearchPolicy CSPSearchPath
/usr/bin/dscl /Search/Contacts -append / CSPSearchPath "/Active Directory/All Domains"
/usr/bin/dscl /Search -append / CSPSearchPath "/LDAPv3/opendirectoryserver.local"
/usr/bin/dscl /Search/Contacts -append / CSPSearchPath "/LDAPv3/opendirectoryserver.local"

It's easy to verify and unbind the computer from the domains but how to I list the SearchPath to check if I need to reset it?

mac-osx mac

2 Answers

  1. You can use:

    /usr/bin/dscl /Search -read /

    to list the items in the SearchPath.

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  2. you can also use

    mcxquery -user = -group = -computer =

    you don't need to add anything after the "=" to see details for the current user/group/computer

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