Returning all user and operational attributes in a schema search - PingDirectory

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9.2 Product PingDirectory

Specify "*" in a search attribute list to represent all user attributes. Specifying "+" retrieves all operational attributes.

The following standards are used in The as part of the LDAP specification.

Standard	Overview
RFC 3673	Describes the use of `"+"` to represent all operational attributes
RFC 4511	Describes the use of `"*"` to represent all user attributes

To search the cn=schema entry and return all user and operational attributes, run ldapsearch.
```
bin/ldapsearch --baseDN cn=schema --searchScope base "(objectclass=*)" "*" "+"
```