redhat man page for ldappasswd

LDAPPASSWD(1)						      General Commands Manual						     LDAPPASSWD(1)

NAME
       ldappasswd - change the password of an LDAP entry

SYNOPSIS
       ldappasswd  [-A]  [-a oldPasswd]  [-D binddn]  [-d debuglevel]  [-H ldapuri] [-h ldaphost] [-n] [-p ldapport] [-S] [-s newPasswd] [-v] [-W]
       [-w passwd] [-O security-properties] [-I] [-Q] [-U authcid] [-x] [-X authzid] [-Y mech] [-Z[Z]] [user]

DESCRIPTION
       ldappasswd is a tool to set the password of an LDAP user.  ldappasswd uses the LDAPv3 Password Modify (RFC 3062) extended operation.

       ldappasswd sets the password of associated with the user [or an optionally specified user].  If the new password is not	specified  on  the
       command line and the user doesn't enable prompting, the server will be asked to generate a password for the user.

       ldappasswd is neither designed nor intended to be a replacement for passwd(1) and should not be installed as such.

OPTIONS
       -A     Prompt for old password.	This is used instead of specifying the password on the command line.

       -a oldPasswd
	      Set the old password to oldPasswd.

       -x     Use simple authentication instead of SASL.

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

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

       -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.

       -n     Do not set password. (Can be useful when used in conjunction with -v or -d)

       -S     Prompt for new password.	This is used instead of specifying the password on the command line.

       -s newPasswd
	      Set the new password to newPasswd.

       -v     Increase the verbosity of output.  Can be specified multiple times.

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

       -w passwd
	      Use passwd as the password to bind with.

       -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 ID 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:<distinguishedname> 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

SEE ALSO
       ldap_sasl_bind(3) ldap_extended_operation(3) ldap_start_tls_s(3)

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						     LDAPPASSWD(1)