ldapattrdelete

#!/bin/bash

if [ $UID -ne 0 ]; then
	echo "Hey! You have to be root to do this. (Try 'sudo !!')"
	exit 1
fi

echo "Okay, we'll delete an attribute from a user."
echo -n " (Username)                  uid: "; read LDAPUID #You can't use $UID in a bash script.
echo -n "                  Attribute name: "; read ATTRIBUTE
echo -n "Current value for that attribute: "; read VALUE
ADMINPASS=$(grep 'olcRootPW' /etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn\=config/olcDatabase\=\{0\}config.ldif | cut -d ' ' -f 2)
echo -n "Okay, we will remove $ATTRIBUTE: $VALUE from the user $LDAPUID. If that's right, hit return. Hit Ctrl+C to bail."; read BLAH

echo ""

echo -n "Provisioning LDAP attribute. "
echo "dn: uid=$LDAPUID,ou=people,dc=makerslocal,dc=org
changetype: modify
delete: $ATTRIBUTE
$ATTRIBUTE: $VALUE" | ldapadd -D "cn=admin,dc=makerslocal,dc=org" -w $ADMINPASS -xH ldap://newldap
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "Well, that didn't work."; exit; fi

echo "aaaaaand done. We did the thing!"