| 1 | <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>ldbedit</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.74.0"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="ldbedit.1"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ldbedit — Edit LDB databases using your preferred editor</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="literal">ldbedit</code> [-?] [--usage] [-s base|one|sub] [-b basedn] [-a] [-e editor] [-H LDB-URL] [expression] [attributes...]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2483370"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>ldbedit is a utility that allows you to edit LDB entries (in
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| 2 | tdb files, sqlite files or LDAP servers) using your preferred editor.
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| 3 | ldbedit generates an LDIF file based on your query, allows you to edit
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| 4 | the LDIF, and then merges that LDIF back into the LDB backend.
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| 5 | </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2483385"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">-?, </span><span class="term">--help</span></dt><dd><p>
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| 6 | Show list of available options, and a phrase describing what that option
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| 7 | does.
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| 8 | </p></dd><dt><span class="term">--usage</span></dt><dd><p>
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| 9 | Show list of available options. This is similar to the help option,
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| 10 | however it does not provide any description, and is hence shorter.
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| 11 | </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-H <ldb-url></span></dt><dd><p>
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| 12 | LDB URL to connect to. For a tdb database,
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| 13 | this will be of the form
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| 14 | tdb://<em class="replaceable"><code>filename</code></em>.
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| 15 | For a LDAP connection over unix domain
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| 16 | sockets, this will be of the form
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| 17 | ldapi://<em class="replaceable"><code>socket</code></em>. For
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| 18 | a (potentially remote) LDAP connection over
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| 19 | TCP, this will be of the form
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| 20 | ldap://<em class="replaceable"><code>hostname</code></em>. For
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| 21 | an SQLite database, this will be of the form
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| 22 | sqlite://<em class="replaceable"><code>filename</code></em>.
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| 23 | </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-s one|sub|base</span></dt><dd><p>Search scope to use. One-level, subtree or base.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-a, </span><span class="term">-all</span></dt><dd><p>Edit all records. This allows you to
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| 24 | apply the same change to a number of records
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| 25 | at once. You probably want to combine this
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| 26 | with an expression of the form
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| 27 | "objectclass=*".
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| 28 | </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-e editor, </span><span class="term">--editor editor</span></dt><dd><p>Specify the editor that should be used (overrides
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| 29 | the VISUAL and EDITOR environment
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| 30 | variables). If this option is not used, and
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| 31 | neither VISUAL nor EDITOR environment variables
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| 32 | are set, then the vi editor will be used.
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| 33 | </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-b basedn</span></dt><dd><p>Specify Base Distinguished Name to use.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-v, </span><span class="term">--verbose</span></dt><dd><p>Make ldbedit more verbose about the
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| 34 | operations that are being performed. Without
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| 35 | this option, ldbedit will only provide a
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| 36 | summary change line.
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| 37 | </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2483662"></a><h2>ENVIRONMENT</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">LDB_URL</span></dt><dd><p>LDB URL to connect to. This can be
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