ldap-shadow

Shadow package compatible LDAP account administration tools. The purpose of these LDAP user account and group management tools is to provide command line interface which is mostly compatible with corresponding local user account and group management tools from the shadow package.

Dependencies

• ldapmodify, ldappasswd and ldapsearch from the openldap package (required)
• help2man from the help2man package for documentation (recommended)
• pwqcheck and pwqgen from the passwdqc package for password quality checking (recommended)

User commands

• ldap-chfn: Change the full name, the home, mobile and work phone numbers and the room number of an LDAP user account on an LDAP server.
• ldap-chsh: Change the login shell of an LDAP user account on an LDAP server.
• ldap-passwd: Change the password of an LDAP user account on an LDAP server.
• ldap-pwqcheck: Check the password quality for an LDAP user account.
• ldap-pwqgen: Generate a quality controllable random passphrase for an LDAP user account.

Administrative commands

• ldap-groupadd: Add a new LDAP group to an LDAP server using administrative privileges.
• ldap-groupdel: Delete an LDAP group from an LDAP server using administrative privileges.
• ldap-groupmod: Modify an LDAP group on an LDAP server using administrative privileges.
• ldap-useradd: Add a new LDAP user account to an LDAP server using administrative privileges.
• ldap-userdel: Delete an LDAP user account from an LDAP server using administrative privileges.
• ldap-usermod: Modify an LDAP user account on an LDAP server using administrative privileges.

Copyright

Copyright (C) 2012 - 2022 Eero Häkkinen <Eero+ldap-shadow@Häkkinen.fi>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.