LDAP Directories Explained: An Introduction and Analysis

Appendix E. Active Directory Controls Appendix

The controls are presented in the order listed in the rootDSE entry.

• Paged Search control—. Used with the search operation. This control allows a client to retrieve a result in small pieces. The OID 1.2.840.113556.1.4.319 specifies this control. This control is described in Chapter 3.

• Get Security Descriptor control—. Used with the search operation. This control allows a client to retrieve the nTSecurityDescriptor attribute. The nTSecurityDescriptor attribute is not returned normally, even if explicitly requested. There are four flags used with this control to retrieve the different portions of the attribute. 0x01 is used to get the owner information, 0x02 is used to get the group information, 0x04 ...