Re: ldapmodify command question...

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Tuesday, August 10, 2004 8:28 PM -0400 John Von Essen 
<john@essenz.com> wrote:

> Is it possible to do the following:
>
> I have a couple hundred DN's in an ldif file that look like:
>
> dn: uid=bob,o=domain.com
> uid: bob
> mail: bob@domain.com
> cn: Bob Jones
>
> The question is some of the dn's in my ldif file are new and do not exist
> in LDAP server (so I add them with -x -a -f). Some entries however, do
> already exist in LDAP - but I want to get rid of what is currently in
> LDAP and force the ADD of what is in the ldif file. The entry in ldif
> might be identical to what is in LDAP, or it might be different - either
> way, the data in the ldif file is superior.

I suggest a single pass first, finding what ones already exist.  Delete 
them, then use ldapadd to add the entire file.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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