Re: Deleting non-leaf entries from LDAP.

[Martin Smith <martinfsmith@cox.net>]

I believe there's an "-r" switch in ldapdelete that does the necessary 
recursion.

Martin



Michael Ströder wrote:

> Christian Pohl wrote:
> > Sridhar Bandi wrote:
> >
> >>     Can someone let  me know how to delete entries which
> >>     are under a non-leaf entry and that non-leaf entry also.
> >
> > You have to delete it all one by one starting at the leaves up to the
> > "non-leave".
>
> Note that when coding such a thing the operational attribute 
> 'hasSubordinates' available in recent OpenLDAP 2.1.x is quite handy. 
> You have to explicitly request this operational attribute.
>
> (There are similar operational attributes on other LDAP servers: 
> 'numSubordinates' on Netscape/Sun/iPlanet, 'subordinateCount' on 
> Novell eDirectory).
>
> Ciao, Michael.