Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

--On Friday, December 03, 2010 3:33 PM -0800 Anton Chu anton.chu@telecommand.com wrote:

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How do I rename my base dn due to my domain name change? I'm using the latest openldap run time configuraiton.

A modrdn operation, if you are using back-hdb.

Quanah, if we are talking about changing the base DN referenced by 'suffix' in a database section of slapd.conf I have some doubts that a simple ModRDN request will work:

- the old or the new database suffix is not already there and data across database cannot be moved

- DN references within the data will have to be updated ( e.g. groupOfNames/member)

- And also changing the config is needed whereever the base DN is referenced (ACLs etc.)

Ciao, Michael.

Angel L. Mateo wrote:

El 04/12/10 00:33, Anton Chu escribió:

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How do I rename my base dn due to my domain name change? I'm using the latest openldap run time configuraiton.

Maybe the hard solution:

• make a backup of the entire directory with slapcat

Yes.

• edit the resulting ldif with an text editor and replace old ocurrences

of old suffix with the new one

Bear in mind:

1. If at least one attribute value in the DN contains non-ASCII chars the LDIF contains base64-encoded DN values which you can't easily search&replace with a text editor.

2. Also long DN values might be split over two or more lines (line continuations) in the LDIF file. This also makes simple search&replace nearly unfeasible.

So in general the safest approach is to write a small script using your favourite scripting language and a decent LDIF reader/writer module and rewrite all DN values therein.

• create the new directory with slapadd

Yes.

Ciao, Michael.