SMBLDAP...ATE.CMD(8)

💖 NAME 💖

smbldap-populate — ok so this one's whole job is literally just populating your LDAP database ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

smbldap-populate [ldif-file]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Bestie. Listen. smbldap-populate is the little glow-up your LDAP server has been waiting for — it helps you populate an LDAP server by adding all the necessary entries, which are:

• the base suffix (and no, it does not abort if it's already there, she's chill like that 🫶)
• organizational units for users, groups and computers
• the builtin users: Administrator and guest 👑
• builtin groups (though posixAccount only, no SambaTNG support — we don't do that one, periodt)

And then the options, the way that there are four of them and they're all lowkey essential:

• -a name — your local administrator login name (default: root) 💅
• -b name — your local guest login name (default: nobody) 🙈
• -e file — export an ldif file ✨
• -i file — import an ldif file (heads up bestie: options -a and -b will be ignored when you do this) 💀

fr fr, that -i thing is the one to remember — if you pass -i, your -a and -b are just sitting there getting ignored. it's giving "not invited to the party" 😭

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🌸 FILES 🌸

• /etc/smbldap-tools/smbldap.conf — main configuration, the main character 👑
• /etc/smbldap-tools/smbldap_bind.conf — credentials for binding to the directory 🔐

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• smb.conf(5) — go read her too, she's iconic

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this was written by the User Contributed Perl Documentation girlies, running on perl v5.32.1, dated 2021-11-07, filed under SMBLDAP...ATE.CMD(8). mwah 💋