NAME

       ldapscripts - Scripts to manage POSIX accounts in your LDAP directory.

DESCRIPTION

       The  ldapscripts  are  a set of shell (sh) scripts designed to manage POSIX accounts in an
       OpenLDAP directory. They can be used as standalone tools or within  Samba  3.x's  smb.conf
       file.

REQUIREMENTS

       The  main  requirements  are  the  OpenLDAP client tools (ldapadd, ldapsearch, ldapdelete,
       ...). Other commands are called in the scripts but should come with your  OS  (sed,  grep,
       cut, ...).

CONFIGURATION

       The     main     configuration    of    the    ldapscripts    is    usually    the    file
       /etc/ldapscripts/ldapscripts.conf     (or     /usr/local/etc/ldapscripts/ldapscripts.conf,
       depending  on  your  system).  Modify  it to fit your needs before using the scripts. Each
       script  also   uses   a   "runtime"   file,   usually   /usr/lib/ldapscripts/runtime   (or
       /usr/local/lib/ldapscripts/runtime). You don't need to modify this file.

TEMPLATES

       Each script that adds information to the directory uses a template. Templates are directly
       embedded at the end of the scripts but it is also possible to use external template  files
       (see  GTEMPLATE,  UTEMPLATE  and  MTEMPLATE  variables  in  the  configuration file). Each
       template consists of a preformatted LDIF file using special keywords that will be replaced
       on-the-fly. Sample files are provided for your convenience : ldapaddgroup.template.sample,
       ldapadduser.template.sample and ldapaddmachine.template.sample. It is strongly advised  to
       use those files instead of modifying the embedded (default) templates in the scripts.

       Sample  templates include every keyword you can use. One special additional keyword is the
       <ask> keyword that will trigger user input to get the attribute value interactively.

USING AS STANDALONE TOOLS

       Each script can be used as a standard command-line tool. Check  their  man  pages  to  get
       help.

USING WITH SAMBA 3.x

       Each  Samba  3.x  smb.conf  "xxx script" option has a matching script. Modify you smb.conf
       file this way to call them :

       # [...]
       add machine script = /usr/local/sbin/ldapaddmachine '%u' sambamachines
       add user script = /usr/local/sbin/ldapadduser '%u' sambausers
       add group script = /usr/local/sbin/ldapaddgroup '%g'
       add user to group script = /usr/local/sbin/ldapaddusertogroup '%u' '%g'
       delete user script = /usr/local/sbin/ldapdeleteuser '%u'
       delete group script = /usr/local/sbin/ldapdeletegroup '%g'
       delete user from group script = /usr/local/sbin/ldapdeleteuserfromgroup '%u' '%g'
       set primary group script = /usr/local/sbin/ldapsetprimarygroup '%u' '%g'
       rename user script = /usr/local/sbin/ldaprenameuser '%uold' '%unew'
       # [...]

SEE ALSO

       ldapdeletemachine(1),    ldapmodifymachine(1),    ldaprenamemachine(1),    ldapadduser(1),
       ldapdeleteuserfromgroup(1),   ldapfinger(1),   ldapid(1),   ldapmodifyuser(1),  lsldap(1),
       ldapaddusertogroup(1), ldaprenameuser(1), ldapinit(1), ldapsetpasswd(1),  ldapaddgroup(1),
       ldapdeletegroup(1),    ldapsetprimarygroup(1),   ldapmodifygroup(1),   ldaprenamegroup(1),
       ldapaddmachine(1), ldapdeleteuser(1).

AVAILABILITY

       The ldapscripts are provided under the GNU General Public License v2 (see COPYING for more
       details).     The    latest    version    of   the   ldapscripts   is   available   on   :
       http://contribs.martymac.org

BUGS

       Sometimes, that kind of message may appear in the log file : Additional information: value
       does not conform to assertion syntax .  Setting slapd's debug level to 32 shows additional
       details : get_ava: illegal value for attributeType uidNumber .  This is *not* a bug :  the
       ldapscripts  tend  to use the power of LDAP filters to easily find users (or groups) using
       either a uidNumber (numerical value) or a uid (string value). The following  filter  (used
       by   ldapfinger(1))   will   generate   the   above   message  if  $_USER  is  a  login  :
       "(|(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(|(uid=$_USER)(uidNumber=$_USER)))
       (&(objectClass=posixGroup)(|(cn=$_USER)(gidNumber=$_USER))))"    because    filter    part
       "(uidNumber=$_USER)" requires an integer but gets a string. You can  mostly  ignore  those
       warnings.

                                         January 1, 2006                           ldapscripts(5)