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Using command-line (Linux) or LDIF, I could find many examples of creating a new group and defining its members, but no examples of this:

How to add a user to an existing group?

Let's say the person also already exists.

For instance adding user uid=fred,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com to group cn=vipb,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com.

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You add a memberUid attribute to the group. For example:

$ ldapmodify -D <admin DN> -h <ldaphost>
password: [enter password]
dn: cn=vipb,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com
changetype: modify
add: memberUid
memberUid: fred

^D

For the record, the LDAP schema is described in RFC 2307.

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  • By the way, I recommend using a point-and-click LDAP browser to get a feel for your LDAP structure and schema. Back in the day I used JXplorer but there may be better ones these days.
    – Tom Shaw
    Jun 1, 2011 at 12:30
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    Apache Directory Studio is a good alternative.
    – kara deniz
    Nov 23, 2015 at 19:43

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