1 .TH LDAPCOMPARE 1 "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
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6 ldapcompare \- LDAP compare tool
18 .BI \-d \ debuglevel\fR]
26 .BI \-y \ passwdfile\fR]
30 .BI \-h \ ldaphost\fR]
32 .BI \-p \ ldapport\fR]
34 .BR \-P \ { 2 \||\| 3 }]
36 .BI \-O \ security-properties\fR]
57 .BI attr:: b64value\fR}
60 is a shell-accessible interface to the
61 .BR ldap_compare_ext (3)
65 opens a connection to an LDAP server, binds, and performs a compare
66 using specified parameters. The \fIDN\fP should be a distinguished
67 name in the directory. \fIAttr\fP should be a known attribute. If
68 followed by one colon, the assertion \fIvalue\fP should be provided
69 as a string. If followed by two colons, the base64 encoding of the
70 value is provided. The result code of the compare is provided as
71 the exit code and, unless ran with \fB\-z\fP, the program prints
72 TRUE, FALSE, or UNDEFINED on standard output.
77 Show what would be done, but don't actually perform the compare. Useful for
78 debugging in conjunction with \fB\-v\fP.
81 Run in verbose mode, with many diagnostics written to standard output.
84 Run in quiet mode, no output is written. You must check the return
85 status. Useful in shell scripts.
88 Enable manage DSA IT control.
90 makes control critical.
93 Set the LDAP debugging level to \fIdebuglevel\fP.
95 must be compiled with LDAP_DEBUG defined for this option to have any effect.
98 Use simple authentication instead of SASL.
101 Use the Distinguished Name \fIbinddn\fP to bind to the LDAP directory.
102 For SASL binds, the server is expected to ignore this value.
105 Prompt for simple authentication.
106 This is used instead of specifying the password on the command line.
109 Use \fIpasswd\fP as the password for simple authentication.
112 Use complete contents of \fIpasswdfile\fP as the password for
113 simple authentication.
114 Note that \fIcomplete\fP means that any leading or trailing whitespaces,
115 including newlines, will be considered part of the password and,
116 unlike other software, they will not be stripped.
117 As a consequence, passwords stored in files by commands like
119 will not behave as expected, since
121 by default appends a trailing newline to the echoed string.
122 The recommended portable way to store a cleartext password in a file
123 for use with this option is to use
125 with \fI{CLEARTEXT}\fP as hash and the option \fB\-n\fP.
128 Specify URI(s) referring to the ldap server(s); only the protocol/host/port
129 fields are allowed; a list of URI, separated by whitespace or commas
133 Specify an alternate host on which the ldap server is running.
134 Deprecated in favor of \fB\-H\fP.
137 Specify an alternate TCP port where the ldap server is listening.
138 Deprecated in favor of \fB\-H\fP.
140 .BR \-P \ { 2 \||\| 3 }
141 Specify the LDAP protocol version to use.
143 .BI \-O \ security-properties
144 Specify SASL security properties.
147 Enable SASL Interactive mode. Always prompt. Default is to prompt
151 Enable SASL Quiet mode. Never prompt.
154 Specify the authentication ID for SASL bind. The form of the ID
155 depends on the actual SASL mechanism used.
158 Specify the realm of authentication ID for SASL bind. The form of the realm
159 depends on the actual SASL mechanism used.
162 Specify the requested authorization ID for SASL bind.
164 must be one of the following formats:
165 .BI dn: "<distinguished name>"
170 Specify the SASL mechanism to be used for authentication. If it's not
171 specified, the program will choose the best mechanism the server knows.
174 Issue StartTLS (Transport Layer Security) extended operation. If you use
175 \fB\-ZZ\fP, the command will require the operation to be successful.
178 ldapcompare "uid=babs,dc=example,dc=com" sn:Jensen
179 ldapcompare "uid=babs,dc=example,dc=com" sn::SmVuc2Vu
183 Requiring the value be passed on the command line is limiting
184 and introduces some security concerns. The command should support
185 a mechanism to specify the location (file name or URL) to read
191 .BR ldap_compare_ext (3)
193 The OpenLDAP Project <http://www.openldap.org/>