1 .TH LDAPDELETE 1 "10 November 1998" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
3 ldapdelete \- ldap delete entry tool
17 .BI \-d \ debuglevel\fR]
27 .BI \-h \ ldaphost\fR]
29 .BI \-p \ ldapport\fR]
34 is a shell-accessible interface to the
39 opens a connection to an LDAP server, binds, and deletes one or more
40 entries. If one or more \fIdn\fP arguments are provided, entries with
41 those Distinguished Names are deleted. Each \fIdn\fP should be a
42 string-represented DN as defined in RFC 1779. If no \fIdn\fP arguments
43 are provided, a list of DNs is read from standard input (or from
44 \fIfile\fP if the -f flag is used).
48 Show what would be done, but don't actually delete entries. Useful for
49 debugging in conjunction with -v.
52 Use verbose mode, with many diagnostics written to standard output.
55 Use Kerberos authentication instead of simple authentication. It is
56 assumed that you already have a valid ticket granting ticket. This option
59 is compiled with KERBEROS defined.
62 Same as \-k, but only does step 1 of the kerberos bind. This is useful
63 when connecting to a slapd and there is no x500dsa.hostname principal
64 registered with your kerberos servers.
67 Continuous operation mode. Errors are reported, but
69 will continue with deletions. The default is to exit after
73 Set the LDAP debugging level to \fIdebuglevel\fP.
75 must be compiled with LDAP_DEBUG defined for this option to have any effect.
78 Read a series of lines from \fIfile\fP, performing one LDAP search for
79 each line. In this case, the \fIfilter\fP given on the command line
80 is treated as a pattern where the first occurrence of \fB%s\fP is
81 replaced with a line from \fIfile\fP.
84 Use \fIbinddn\fP to bind to the LDAP directory. \fIbinddn\fP should be
85 a string-represented DN as defined in RFC 1779.
88 Prompt for simple authentication.
89 This is used instead of specifying the password on the command line.
92 Use \fIpasswd\fP as the password for simple authentication.
95 Specify an alternate host on which the ldap server is running.
98 Specify an alternate TCP port where the ldap server is listening.
100 The following command:
103 ldapdelete "cn=Delete Me, o=University of Michigan, c=US"
106 will attempt to delete the entry named with commonName "Delete Me"
107 directly below the University of Michigan organizational entry. Of
108 course it would probably be necessary to supply a \fIbinddn\fP and
109 \fIpasswd\fP for deletion to be allowed (see the -D and -w options).
111 Exit status is 0 if no errors occur. Errors result in a non-zero exit
112 status and a diagnostic message being written to standard error.
123 .IR "A String Representation of Distinguished Names",
126 ISODE Consortium, March 1995.
128 There is no interactive mode, but there probably should be.
131 is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project (http://www.openldap.org/).
133 is derived from University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.