A handy shell-like interface for browsing LDAP servers and editing their content. It keeps command history, has sane autocompletes, credential caching, site-wide and individual configs, and it's fun to say. Shelldap! Shelldap! Shelldap!
Witness!
% shelldap
~ > [ tab ]
~ >
cat clear cp delete env grep id ls move passwd read search touch whoami
cd copy create edit exit help list mkdir mv pwd rm setenv vi
~ > cd ou=People
ou=People,~ > cat uid=ma[ tab ]
ou=People,~ > cat uid=mahlon
dn: uid=mahlon,ou=People,dc=laika,dc=com
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
objectClass: organizationalPerson
objectClass: person
objectClass: top
objectClass: posixAccount
objectClass: shadowAccount
objectClass: apple-user
cn: Mahlon E. Smith
departmentNumber: Technology - IT
displayName: Mahlon
gecos: Mahlon E. Smith
gidNumber: 200
givenName: Mahlon
homeDirectory: /home/m/mahlon
l: Ghetto
loginShell: /bin/tcsh
mail: [email protected]
mobile: 1+8829999005747
sn: Smith
title: Manager, Information Systems
uid: mahlon
uidNumber: 20933
userPassword: *
ou=People,~ >
You can download the latest script here.
It is also available via the FreeBSD ports system, OS X via macports, Debian/Ubuntu via apt, NetBSD's pkgsrc, OpenBSD ports, openSUSE's build service, and as a Fedora RPM.
Many thanks to the maintainers of these packages.
Shelldap is simply a perl script. Put it into a convenient place of your choosing.
Shelldap requires the following perl modules to function properly:
- YAML::Syck
- Term::Shell
- Digest::MD5
- Net::LDAP
- Algorithm::Diff
Additional functionality is supported with the presence of:
- IO::Socket::SSL
- Authen::SASL
- Term::ReadLine::Gnu
You can also check out the source via Fossil from the following uri:
% fossil clone https://code.martini.nu/fossil/shelldap
or via its GitHub mirror at:
% git clone https://github.com/mahlonsmith/shelldap.git
Once installed, Shelldap is fully documented via perldoc, and has a built-in help command as well.