Re: problem with moddn

[John Von Essen <john@essenz.com>]

Okay, I figured out the syntax for making a dn change that went beyond 
the left most part:

# ldif
dn: uid=ejones,ou=trad,ou=students,ou=people,o=domain.com
changetype: moddn
newrdn: uid=ejones
deleteoldrdn: 1
newSuperior: ou=staff,ou=people,o=eastern.edu


-John

On Aug 6, 2004, at 1:20 AM, Howard Chu wrote:

> John Von Essen wrote:
>
> > I have data in OpenLDAP like this:
> > dn: uid=ejones,ou=trad,ou=students,ou=people,o=domain.com
> > cn: Ed Jones
> > givenName: Ed
> > sn: Jones
> > and so on...
> > I want to change the ou's in the DN.
> > dn: uid=ejones,ou=trad,ou=students,ou=people,o=domain.com
> > gets changed to
> > dn: uid=ejones,ou=faculty,ou=people,o=domain.com
> > I created the following ldif file and executed ldapmodify -D "XXX" -w 
> > XXX -x -v -f file.ldif
> > dn: uid=ejones,ou=trad,ou=students,ou=people,o=domain.com
> > changetype: moddn
> > newrdn: uid=ejones,ou=faculty,ou=people,o=domain.com
> > I get the error:
> > ldap_initialize( <DEFAULT> )
> > modifying rdn of entry 
> > "uid=ejones,ou=trad,ou=students,ou=people,o=domain.com"
> >         new RDN: "uid=ejones,ou=Staff,ou=People,o=eastern.edu " (do 
> > not keep existing values)
> > modrdn completed
> > ldap_rename: Invalid DN syntax (34)
> >         additional info: invalid new RDN
> > I have tried changing newrdn to newdn?! But that just causes more 
> > errors:
> > ldap_initialize( <DEFAULT> )
> > ldapmodify: expecting "newrdn:" but saw "newdn:" (line 3 of entry 
> > "uid=ejones,ou=trad,ou=students,ou=people,o=domain.com")
> > Could someone point me in the right direction here? Thanks
> > -John
> Use ldapmodrdn instead?
>
> "newrdn" means what it says - the value is supposed to be an RDN. You 
> can't put a full DN in there. You want "newSuperior" for your purpose.
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