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 \ 2\fR\||\|\fI3\fR]
31 .BI \-p \ ldapport\fR]
36 is a shell-accessible interface to the
41 opens a connection to an LDAP server, binds, and deletes one or more
42 entries. If one or more \fIdn\fP arguments are provided, entries with
43 those Distinguished Names are deleted. Each \fIdn\fP should be a
44 string-represented DN as defined in RFC 1779. If no \fIdn\fP arguments
45 are provided, a list of DNs is read from standard input (or from
46 \fIfile\fP if the -f flag is used).
50 Show what would be done, but don't actually delete entries. Useful for
51 debugging in conjunction with -v.
54 Use verbose mode, with many diagnostics written to standard output.
57 Use Kerberos authentication instead of simple authentication. It is
58 assumed that you already have a valid ticket granting ticket. This option
61 is compiled with KERBEROS defined.
64 Same as \-k, but only does step 1 of the kerberos bind. This is useful
65 when connecting to a slapd and there is no x500dsa.hostname principal
66 registered with your kerberos servers.
69 Continuous operation mode. Errors are reported, but
71 will continue with deletions. The default is to exit after
75 Set the LDAP debugging level to \fIdebuglevel\fP.
77 must be compiled with LDAP_DEBUG defined for this option to have any effect.
80 Read a series of lines from \fIfile\fP, performing one LDAP search for
81 each line. In this case, the \fIfilter\fP given on the command line
82 is treated as a pattern where the first occurrence of \fB%s\fP is
83 replaced with a line from \fIfile\fP.
86 Use \fIbinddn\fP to bind to the LDAP directory. \fIbinddn\fP should be
87 a string-represented DN as defined in RFC 1779.
90 Prompt for simple authentication.
91 This is used instead of specifying the password on the command line.
94 Use \fIpasswd\fP as the password for simple authentication.
97 Specify an alternate host on which the ldap server is running.
100 Specify an alternate TCP port where the ldap server is listening.
102 .BI \-P \ 2\fR\||\|\fI3
103 Specify the LDAP protocol version to use.
105 The following command:
108 ldapdelete "cn=Delete Me, o=University of Michigan, c=US"
111 will attempt to delete the entry named with commonName "Delete Me"
112 directly below the University of Michigan organizational entry. Of
113 course it would probably be necessary to supply a \fIbinddn\fP and
114 \fIpasswd\fP for deletion to be allowed (see the -D and -w options).
116 Exit status is 0 if no errors occur. Errors result in a non-zero exit
117 status and a diagnostic message being written to standard error.
128 .IR "A String Representation of Distinguished Names",
131 ISODE Consortium, March 1995.
133 There is no interactive mode, but there probably should be.
136 is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project (http://www.openldap.org/).
138 is derived from University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.