1 .TH LDAPDELETE 1 "10 November 1998" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
3 ldapdelete \- ldap delete entry tool
19 .BI \-d \ debuglevel\fR]
29 .BI \-h \ ldaphost\fR]
31 .BI \-P \ 2\fR\||\|\fI3\fR]
33 .BI \-p \ ldapport\fR]
38 is a shell-accessible interface to the
43 opens a connection to an LDAP server, binds, and deletes one or more
44 entries. If one or more \fIdn\fP arguments are provided, entries with
45 those Distinguished Names are deleted. Each \fIdn\fP should be a
46 string-represented DN as defined in RFC 1779. If no \fIdn\fP arguments
47 are provided, a list of DNs is read from standard input (or from
48 \fIfile\fP if the -f flag is used).
52 Show what would be done, but don't actually delete entries. Useful for
53 debugging in conjunction with -v.
56 Use verbose mode, with many diagnostics written to standard output.
59 Use Kerberos authentication instead of simple authentication. It is
60 assumed that you already have a valid ticket granting ticket. This option
63 is compiled with KERBEROS defined.
66 Same as \-k, but only does step 1 of the kerberos bind. This is useful
67 when connecting to a slapd and there is no x500dsa.hostname principal
68 registered with your kerberos servers.
71 Continuous operation mode. Errors are reported, but
73 will continue with deletions. The default is to exit after
77 Enable manage DSA IT control.
79 makes control critical.
82 Set the LDAP debugging level to \fIdebuglevel\fP.
84 must be compiled with LDAP_DEBUG defined for this option to have any effect.
87 Read a series of lines from \fIfile\fP, performing one LDAP search for
88 each line. In this case, the \fIfilter\fP given on the command line
89 is treated as a pattern where the first occurrence of \fB%s\fP is
90 replaced with a line from \fIfile\fP.
93 Use \fIbinddn\fP to bind to the LDAP directory. \fIbinddn\fP should be
94 a string-represented DN as defined in RFC 1779.
97 Prompt for simple authentication.
98 This is used instead of specifying the password on the command line.
101 Use \fIpasswd\fP as the password for simple authentication.
104 Specify an alternate host on which the ldap server is running.
107 Specify an alternate TCP port where the ldap server is listening.
109 .BI \-P \ 2\fR\||\|\fI3
110 Specify the LDAP protocol version to use.
112 The following command:
115 ldapdelete "cn=Delete Me, o=University of Michigan, c=US"
118 will attempt to delete the entry named with commonName "Delete Me"
119 directly below the University of Michigan organizational entry. Of
120 course it would probably be necessary to supply a \fIbinddn\fP and
121 \fIpasswd\fP for deletion to be allowed (see the -D and -w options).
123 Exit status is 0 if no errors occur. Errors result in a non-zero exit
124 status and a diagnostic message being written to standard error.
135 .IR "A String Representation of Distinguished Names",
138 ISODE Consortium, March 1995.
140 There is no interactive mode, but there probably should be.
143 is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project (http://www.openldap.org/).
145 is derived from University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.