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ADTOOL(1)              DragonFly General Commands Manual             ADTOOL(1)

NAME

adtool - Active Directory administration tool

SYNOPSIS

adtool [-h] [-v] [-H uri] [-D binddn] [-w bindpasswd] [-b searchbase] operation [arguments...]

DESCRIPTION

adtool is a unix command line utility for Active Directory administration. Features include user and group creation, deletion, modification, password setting and directory query and search capabilities.

OPTIONS

-h Output usage information. -v Output version information. -H uri The uri of the Active Directory server to connect to, eg. ldap://ad1.example.com. -D binddn The distinguished name of the user to bind to the server as, eg. cn=admin,ou=usrs,dc=example,dc=com. -w password The password to authenticate with. -b searchbase The distinguished name of the base for any operations that involve searching the directory, eg. ou=users,dc=example,dc=com.

OPERATIONS

usercreate <username> <container> create a new user userdelete <username> delete a user userlock <username> disable a user account userunlock <username> enable a user account setpass <user> [password] set user's password. The password can be entered either as an argument or interactively, in which case it is not echoed back to the screen. usermove <user> <new container> move user to another container userrename <old username> <new username> rename user computercreate <name> <container> create a new computer account groupcreate <group name> <container> create a new group groupdelete <group name> delete a group groupadduser <group> <user> add a user to a group groupremoveuser <group> <user> remove a user from a group groupsubtreeremove <container> <user> remove a user from all groups below a given ou oucreate <organizational unit name> <container> create a new organizational unit oudelete <organizational unit name> delete an organizational unit attributeget <object> <attribute> display attribute values attributeadd <object> <attribute> <value> add an attribute attributeaddbinary <object> <attribute> <filename> add an attribute from a file attributereplace <object> <attribute> <value> replace an attribute attributedelete <object> <attribute> [value] delete an attribute or attribute instance search <attribute> <value> simple ldap search

CONFIGURATION

The command line options can instead be specified in a configuration file. An example is installed to (install prefix)/etc/adtool.cfg.dist. Rename this to adtool.cfg and edit as appropriate. uri server to connect to binddn distinguished name of the user to bind to the server as. bindpw password to bind to the server with. searchbase base for search operations.

AUTHOR

Mike Dawson <mjd@dexy.mine.nu> http://dexy.mine.nu/adtool/ adtool 1.2 October 2002 ADTOOL(1)

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