Recipe 10.10 Viewing a Class

10.10.1 Problem

You want to view the attributes of a class.

10.10.2 Solution

10.10.2.1 Using a graphical user interface

10.10.2.2 Using a command-line interface

In the following command, replace <ClassCommonName> with the common name (not LDAP display name) of the class you want to view:

> dsquery * cn=<ClassCommonName>,cn=schema,cn=configuration,<ForestRootDN> -scope[RETURN]
base -attr *

10.10.2.3 Using VBScript

' This code prints out the attributes for the specified class.
' Recipe 4.2 for the code for the DisplayAttributes( ) function.
' ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------
' Set to the common name (not LDAP display dame) 
' of the class you want to view. 
strClassName = "<ClassCommonName>"   ' e.g. user
' ------ END CONFIGURATION ---------

set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE")
set objClass = GetObject("LDAP://cn=" & strClassName & "," & _
                         objRootDSE.Get("schemaNamingContext"))
objClass.GetInfo
WScript.Echo "Properties for " & strClassName
DisplayAttributes(objClass.ADsPath)

10.10.3 Discussion

See Table 10-1 for a list of the important classSchema attributes and their descriptions.

10.10.4 See Also

Recipe 4.2 for viewing the attributes of an object