Re: how to replace multiple attributes?

[Adam Williams <awilliam@mdah.state.ms.us>]

Philip Guenther wrote:
> That input looks okay to me and similar looking input works with
> ldapmodify in my testing.  My guess is that there's something invisible in 
> the file that's breaking the parse.  For example, trailing whitespace on 
> the "-" lines is invalid and will result in errors like the above.  I 
> suggest you look at the output of
> 	cat -vet profilepaths.ldif
>
> and make sure the '$' that that command puts at the end of each line is 
> where you expect it to be and that there's no otherwise hidden control 
> characters.
>
>
> Philip Guenther
>   

thanks, cat'ing it looks ok to me, each line ends in ^M$ with no whitespace.

[root@roark ldap]# cat -vet profilepaths.ldif
dn: uid=panderson,ou=People,dc=mdah,dc=state,dc=ms,dc=us^M$
changetype: modify^M$
replace: sambaProfilePath^M$
sambaProfilePath: \\preshs\profiles\panderson^M$
-^M$
replace: sambaHomePath^M$
sambaHomePath: \\preshs\panderson^M$
-^M$
replace: sambaLogonScript^M$
sambaLogonScript: scripts\panderson.bat^M$
-^M$
replace: sambaHomeDrive^M$
sambaHomeDrive: R:^M$
[root@roark ldap]# ldapmodify -D 
"cn=Manager,dc=mdah,dc=state,dc=ms,dc=us" -w xxxxxxxxxx -x -v -f 
profilepaths.ldif
ldap_initialize( <DEFAULT> )
ldapmodify: invalid format (line 5) entry: 
"uid=panderson,ou=People,dc=mdah,dc=state,dc=ms,dc=us"