Get Manager attribute from AD 2003

Question

Guys, Is there anyway to retrieve the value of "manager" attribute for a specific user defined on Active directory (windows 2003), any example will be higly appreciated as i am trapped. Thank u

Answer 1

If you know the user name you could simply just retrieve the "manager" attribute. For example:.....
String userName = "CN=Albert Einstein,OU=Research,DC=antipodes,DC=com";
// Create the initial directory context
LdapContext ctx = new InitialLdapContext(env,null);
// Retrieve all attributes of the requested object
Attributes attrs = ctx.getAttributes(userName);
// Print out some of the attributes
System.out.println("DN: " + attrs.get("distinguishedName").get());
System.out.println("Manager: " + attrs.get("manager").get());
.....Alternatively if you are performing a search, again just specify the manager attribute in the list of attributes to be returned. ....
//Specify the attributes to return
String returnedAtts[]={"sn","givenName","mail","manager"};
searchCtls.setReturningAttributes(returnedAtts);
//Specify the search scope
searchCtls.setSearchScope(SearchControls.SUBTREE_SCOPE);
//specify the LDAP search filter
String searchFilter = "(&(objectClass=user)(mail=*))";
//Specify the Base for the search
String searchBase = "DC=Antipodes,DC=Com";
....Note the corresponding backlink to the manager attribute is the directReports attribute.