LDN - Luminis Developer Network

#!/bin/bash
# Prompt for the user login name and then deletes the pdsPssSRS attribute for that user
echo " "
echo -n "Enter the user's Luminis login: "
read vLogin
if [[ -z $vLogin ]]; then
echo "Nothing entered."
exit
fi

echo "Retrieving... "

# Convert input to all lowercase
vLogin=$(echo $vLogin|tr [A-Z] [a-z])

# Get all the LDAP info needed to log in
Ldap_host=$(configman -g pds.ldap.host.name)
Ldap_passwd=$(configman -g pds.ldap.directory_manager.password)
Ldap_owner=$(configman -g pds.ldap.directory_manager.userid)

# Get the person's UID and store it in the variable userDn
# -LLL Restricts the output to LDIFv1, disables comments and disables printing of the LDIF version.
# -x Use simple authentication instead of SASL
# -D Use the Distinguished Name binddn to bind to the LDAP directory.
# -h LDAP Hostname
# -b The starting base for the search. Change to match your LDAP info
userDn=$(ldapsearch -LLL -x \
-D "${Ldap_owner}" \
-w ${Ldap_passwd} \
-h ${Ldap_host} \
-b ou=People,o=YourSchool.ca,o=cp \
"pdsLoginId=${vLogin}" \
dn)
#
# Write out the commands to a temp file. $$ is the current process number
echo $userDn > $$.tmp
echo 'changetype: modify' >> $$.tmp
echo 'delete: pdsPssSRS' >> $$.tmp
#
echo "Deleting pdsPssSRS record from LDAP for ${vLogin}..."
#
ldapmodify -x \
-D "${Ldap_owner}" \
-w ${Ldap_passwd} \
-h ${Ldap_host} \
-f $$.tmp
#
# Remove the temp file
rm -f $$.tmp

The purpose is to delete it after it is requested, but there is going to be more than we can do with a Web Browser so I want a jsp page that will kick the script off.

Thanks for what you've written down for me. I think that has saved me a lot of research. Will post when its complete and also post the code in case its of any use to someone else. Obviously the community has written more of this than I have.

thanks.
~Terence