To list specific information such as a user's passwd entry, use the getent command. For example:
# getent passwd user1 user1::30641:10:Joe Q. User:/home/user1:/bin/csh
You also use the getent command to perform lookups on databases that are listed in the automount table, for example, getent automount/map [key]. For example:
# getent automount/auto_home user1 user1 server-name:/home/user1
In the previous example, auto_home is the name of the automount map and user1 is the search key. If you do not specify any search key, then the entire contents of the specified automount map are listed.
To list all attributes, use ldaplist with the -l option.
# ldaplist -l passwd user1 dn: uid=user1,ou=People,dc=west,dc=example,dc=com uid: user1 cn: user1 uidNumber: 30641 gidNumber: 10 gecos: Joe Q. User homeDirectory: /home/user1 loginShell: /bin/csh objectClass: top objectClass: shadowAccount objectClass: account objectClass: posixAccount shadowLastChange: 6445