LDAPDELETE(1)						      General Commands Manual						     LDAPDELETE(1)

NAME

       ldapdelete - LDAP delete entry tool

SYNOPSIS

       ldapdelete  [-n]  [-v]  [-k]  [-K]  [-c] [-M[M]] [-d debuglevel] [-f file] [-D binddn] [-W] [-w passwd] [-H ldapuri] [-h ldaphost] [-P 2|3]
       [-p ldapport] [-O security-properties] [-U authcid] [-x] [-I] [-Q] [-X authzid] [-Y mech] [-Z[Z]] [dn]...

DESCRIPTION

       ldapdelete is a shell-accessible interface to the ldap_delete(3) library call.

       ldapdelete opens a connection to an LDAP server, binds, and deletes one or more entries.  If one or more DN arguments are provided, entries
       with  those Distinguished Names are deleted.  Each DN should be provided using the LDAPv3 string representation as defined in RFC 2253.	If
       no dn arguments are provided, a list of DNs is read from standard input (or from file if the -f flag is used).

OPTIONS

       -n     Show what would be done, but don't actually delete entries.  Useful for debugging in conjunction with -v.

       -v     Use verbose mode, with many diagnostics written to standard output.

       -k     Use Kerberos IV authentication instead of simple authentication.	It is assumed that  you  already  have	a  valid  ticket  granting
	      ticket. This option only has effect if ldapdelete is compiled with Kerberos support.

       -K     Same  as	-k, but only does step 1 of the Kerberos IV bind.  This is useful when connecting to a slapd and there is no x500dsa.host-
	      name principal registered with your Kerberos Domain Controller(s).

       -c     Continuous operation mode.  Errors  are  reported,  but ldapdelete will  continue  with  deletions.   The default is to  exit  after
	      reporting an error.

       -M[M]  Enable manage DSA IT control.  -MM makes control critical.

       -d debuglevel
	      Set the LDAP debugging level to debuglevel.  ldapdelete must be compiled with LDAP_DEBUG defined for this option to have any effect.

       -f file
	      Read  a  series of lines from file, performing one LDAP search for each line.  In this case, the filter given on the command line is
	      treated as a pattern where the first occurrence of %s is replaced with a line from file.

       -x     Use simple authentication instead of SASL.

       -D binddn
	      Use the Distinguished Name binddn to bind to the LDAP directory.

       -W     Prompt for simple authentication.  This is used instead of specifying the password on the command line.

       -w passwd
	      Use passwd as the password for simple authentication.

       -H ldapuri
	      Specify URI(s) referring to the ldap server(s).

       -h ldaphost
	      Specify an alternate host on which the ldap server is running.  Deprecated in favor of -H.

       -p ldapport
	      Specify an alternate TCP port where the ldap server is listening.  Deprecated in favor of -H.

       -P 2|3 Specify the LDAP protocol version to use.

       -r     Do a recursive delete.  If the DN specified isn't a leaf, its children, and all their children are deleted down the tree.  No  veri-
	      fication is done, so if you add this switch, ldapdelete will happily delete large portions of your tree.	Use with care.

       -O security-properties
	      Specify SASL security properties.

       -I     Enable SASL Interactive mode.  Always prompt.  Default is to prompt only as needed.

       -Q     Enable SASL Quiet mode.  Never prompt.

       -U authcid
	      Specify the authentication ID for SASL bind. The form of the identity depends on the actual SASL mechanism used.

       -X authzid
	      Specify  the  requested  authorization  ID  for SASL bind.  authzid must be one of the following formats: dn:<distinguished name> or
	      u:<username>

       -Y mech
	      Specify the SASL mechanism to be used for authentication. If it's not specified, the program will  choose  the  best  mechanism  the
	      server knows.

       -Z[Z]  Issue  StartTLS (Transport Layer Security) extended operation. If you use -ZZ, the command will require the operation to be success-
	      ful.

EXAMPLE

       The following command:

	   ldapdelete "cn=Delete Me, dc=example, dc=com"

       will attempt to delete the entry named with commonName "Delete Me" directly below the "dc=example, dc=com" entry.  Of course it would prob-
       ably be necessary to supply authentication credentials.

DIAGNOSTICS

       Exit status is 0 if no errors occur.  Errors result in a non-zero exit status and a diagnostic message being written to standard error.

SEE ALSO

       ldap.conf(5), ldapadd(1), ldapmodify(1), ldapmodrdn(1), ldapsearch(1), ldap(3), ldap_delete(3)

BUGS

       There is no interactive mode, but there probably should be.

AUTHOR

       The OpenLDAP Project <http://www.openldap.org/>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       OpenLDAP  is  developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project (http://www.openldap.org/).  OpenLDAP is derived from University of Michigan
       LDAP 3.3 Release.

OpenLDAP 2.0.27-Release 					  20 August 2001						     LDAPDELETE(1)