3.6. Structure of IPA commands

The IPA CLI distinguishes the following types of commands:

The structure of IPA commands allows you to manage various types of objects. For example:

and many others.

For most of these objects, the IPA CLI includes commands to:

Commands have the following structure:

ipa user-add, ipa user-mod, ipa user-del, ipa user-find, ipa user-show

ipa host-add, ipa host-mod, ipa host-del, ipa host-find, ipa host-show

ipa dnsrecord-add, ipa dnsrecord-mod, ipa dnsrecord-del, ipa dnsrecord-find, ipa dnrecord-show

You can create a user with the ipa user-add [options], where [options] are optional. If you use just the ipa user-add command, the script asks you for details one by one.

Note that the [options] --raw and --structured are mutually exclusive and should not be run together.

To change an existing object, you need to define the object, therefore the command also includes an object: `ipa user-mod USER_NAME `.