LDAP get primary group name of a user in Active Directory

Question

There is a scenario where I need to fetch all the group names for which a particular user is a member of, using LDAP query. The input will be: users distinguished name and the output should be: list of groups for whom this user is a member of.

So far I am able to fetch all the group names a user is member of except the primary group using below LDAP query:

Query:

dsquery * "member:LDAP_MATCHING_RULE_IN_CHAIN:=cn=user1,cn=Users,dc=example,dc=com"

Output:

"CN=group1,CN=Users,DC=example,DC=com"
"CN=mygroup,CN=Users,DC=example,DC=com"

The above query list all the groups "user1" is a member of except the primary group name which is "Domain Admins".

Some how figured out to get primary group RID instead using below LDAP query:

dsquery * "cn=user1,cn=Users,dc=example,dc=com" -scope base -attr primaryGroupID

But getting group name from group RID is again not working, instead if I would have got the primary group SID then that would be easy to get the group name. But what I am getting is primary group RID from which I am not able to fetch group name using LDAP.

Any help regarding this would be great, any way by which I can get the primary group name using some LDAP query only.

T-Heron T-Heron · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-22T11:34:45

You want to use dsget rather than dsquery. This is how to find all groups for a particular member including nested groups and the primary group:

dsget user "cn=user1,cn=Users,dc=example,dc=com" -memberof -expand

LDAP get primary group name of a user in Active Directory

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