---
name: "ud-openldap"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "openldap-utils"
version: "1:1.2.12-1"
release: "Debian 2.2 (Potato)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ud-openldap"
---

# ud-openldap(1)

interactive LDAP Directory Server query program

## NAME

ud - interactive LDAP Directory Server query program

## SYNOPSIS

**ud** \[**-Dv**\] \[**-s** *server*\] \[**-d** *debug-mask*\] \[**-l** *ldap-debug-mask*\] \[**-f** *file*\]

## DESCRIPTION

*ud* is used to interogate a directory server via the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

## OPTIONS

- **-s** *server*

  Used to specify the name of an LDAP server to which **ud** should connect.  If this flag is omitted, the value specified in the **ud** configuration file is used.  If no value is specified in the configuration file, or the configuration file does not exist, the name *ldap* is used.  Of course, it is up to the system administrator to make sure that the name *ldap* can be resolved (presumably through the use of a CNAME or A record in the DNS and the appropriate search path specified in the resolver config file).

- **-d** *debug-mask*

  Sets the **ud** debug mask to the value specified.   Values for the mask can be dumped by using the *-D* flag.

- **-f** *file*

  Sets the configuration file to the name specified.

- **-l** *ldap-debug-mask*

  Sets the LDAP debug mask to the value specified.

- **-v**

  Turns on verbose output.  Also toggable via the ud  *verbose* command.

- **-D**

  Prints out a list of valid ud debug masks.

## FILES

/etc/openldap/ud.conf		The ud configuration file.

## SEE ALSO

[**ud.conf**(5)](/ud.conf/5.md), [**ldap.conf**(5)](/ldap.conf/5.md), [**ldap**(3)](/ldap/3.md)

## DIAGNOSTICS

**ud** will try to be nice about error conditions, and in most cases prints a warm and fuzzy error message when it encounters a problem.  Sometimes the error will be unexpected, and in these cases,  **ud** uses the ldap\_perror() routine to print an informative diagnostic.

## BUGS

Too numerous to mention.

## AUTHOR

Bryan Beecher, University of Michigan

## ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

**OpenLDAP** is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project (http://www.openldap.org/). **OpenLDAP** is derived from University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.