Searching for users in the configured user registry

Use this command to specify a user name criterion and return a list of users that meet that criterion in the configured user registry. This command should only be used for troubleshooting or recovery.

IBM® WebSphere® Application Server must be running to run this command.

Syntax

DirectoryAdmin.bat -user -search -idp userid_pattern -max_count maxcount

DirectoryAdmin.sh -user -search -idp userid_pattern -max_count maxcount

Parameters

The following options are available for the DirectoryAdmin command.

-user: The command line option that specifies that this task is to work with users.
-search: Specifies that the DirectoryAdmin command should perform a search.
-idp: Specifies the user name pattern to search for. The pattern must contain either the full user name or, if the full user name is not used, a part of the user name with a prepended or appended asterisk (*). For example, you might want to use DirectoryAdmin -user -search -idp a* -max_count 4 to search for all users whose user names start with "a".
Note: You must surround the string with double quotation marks like "*", "a" when you use * (asterisk).
-max_count: Limits the number of users that are returned as part of the search.