---
name: "vlad"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "vlad"
version: "0.02-1.2"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/vlad"
---

# vlad(1)

LDAP visualisation tool

## NAME

vlad — LDAP visualisation tool

## SYNOPSIS

**vlad** \[**-h** *host* *\]  \[***-p** *port* *\]  \[***-b** *base DN*  *\]  \[***-D** *bind DN \]  \[***-w** *password \]*

## DESCRIPTION

*This manual page documents briefly the*  **vlad** *command.*

*This manual page was written for the* **Debian GNU/Linux** *distribution*  *because the original program does not have a manual page.*

**vlad** *is a console program for browsing LDAP*  *servers.*

## COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS

*A summary of options is included below.*

- **-h** *host*

  *Required. Sets the hostname of the LDAP server.*

- **-p** *port*

  *Sets the port of the LDAP server. Defaults to 389*

- **-b** *base DN*

  *Required. Sets the base DN for LDAP searches*

- **-D** *bind DN*

  *Sets the DN to bind to the server as. Default is anonymous.*

- **-w** *password*

  *Sets the password associated with the bind DN.*

## INTERACTIVE COMMANDS

*This are the keystrokes you can use while programm is running:*

- **q**

  *return to previous screen / exit program*

- **up,down,pgup,pgdown**

  *scroll data on screen*

- **enter**

  *expand / collapse tree*

- **space**

  *view attributes*

## AUTHOR

*This manual page was written (or: reformatted from*   *upstream README) by Ryszard Lach rla@debian.org for*  *the* **Debian GNU/Linux** *system (but may be used by others).  Permission is*  *granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under*  *the terms of the GNU Free Documentation*  *License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free*  *Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover*  *Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.*