[ldapvi] Adding entries via ldapvi

[David Lichteblau]

Quoting Bjorn Oglefjorn (sys.mailing at gmail.com):
> Can someone please post an example of how to use ldapvi to add entries? I
> haven't found a combination of options that will work, although I find it to
> be an excellent tool for managing entries that are already in the directory.

First of all, you can start ldapvi without reading entries from the
server using the -A option, then just input an entry with "add" as its
key instead of a numeric key.  Of course, that is a very low-tech way of
doing it without much advantage over using ldapadd(1) directly.


The feature that makes things a little more convenient is the -o option,
which allows you to specify objectclasses to show the schema for.

Try
	ldapvi -o person -o posixAccount

to see an entry template with required attributes to be filled out and
optional attributes as comments.  See also
http://www.lichteblau.com/ldapvi/manual/manual.xml#argument-class

In the git version, that also combines well with configuration profiles,
allowing an invocation like above to be given a shorter name.
http://www.lichteblau.com/ldapvi/manual/manual.xml#config

Profiles might or might not turn into a more elaborate templating
mechanism in the future; right now I do not have a clear idea what
exactly users would need here.

(Beware that the manual is work in progress and documents the git
version, not ldapvi 1.5.  The -o option is already present in ldapvi 1.5
though.)


David