Re: Script for mass updates

Nick Milas wrote:

Does anyone have a ready-made script (e.g. bash) that would do the following:

Loop on all entries in the ou=people branch where ou <> "system" { If attribute DisplayName does not exist{ Set DisplayName to the value of attibute cn } }

You could use this LDAP filter to retrieve all entries you have to modify and their 'cn' attribute:

(&(ou:dn:=people)(!(ou=system))(!(displayName=*)))

Applying this simple LDIF to all the entries found is left as exercise to the reader:

dn: cn=dummy,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com changetype: modify add: displayName displayName: <value taken from 'cn'>

Ciao, Michael.