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ADTOOL(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual ADTOOL(1)

adtool - Active Directory administration tool

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

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.

-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.

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

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.

Mike Dawson <mjd@dexy.mine.nu> http://dexy.mine.nu/adtool/

October 2002 adtool 1.2

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