ADEdit Command Reference and Scripting Guide

This guide describes ADEdit for UNIX administrators who want to manage Server Suite and Active Directory from a Linux, UNIX, or Mac computer through CLI commands or scripts. It assumes that you are well-versed in Active Directory’s architecture and management, and that you’re equally well-versed in Server Suite access control and privilege management features. For more complete information about Server Suite software and management tasks, see the Administrator’s Guide for Linux and UNIX.

This guide describes how to use the Server SuiteADEdit command-line interface to manage Server Suiteobjects stored in Microsoft Active Directory. ADEdit is a Tool command language (Tcl) application that enables administrators to run commands and write scripts that modify data in Active Directory directly from their Linux or UNIX console.

Intended Audience

This guide describes ADEdit for UNIX administrators who want to manage Server Suiteand Active Directory from a Linux or UNIX computer through CLI commands or scripts. It assumes that you are well-versed in Active Directory’s architecture and management, and that you’re equally well-versed in Server Suiteaccess control and privilege management features. For more complete information about Server Suitesoftware and management tasks, see the Administrator’s Guide for Linux and UNIX.

Viewing Command Help

ADEdit provides brief help text for each command. To view the help, enter help command_name from the ADEdit command prompt. For example, to see the help for the validate_license command you would enter the following:

>help validate_license

You can also display the general help text for ADEdit by entering man adedit from the shell.

Using this Guide

This guide describes how to use ADEdit and provide reference information for all ADEdit commands and the ADEdit library. It does not describe how to write Tcl scripts using ADEdit commands. For a comprehensive explanation of Tcl and its use, see Tcl and the Tk Toolkit by John K. Ousterhout and Ken Jones (published by Addison-Wesley).

This guide includes the following sections: