Daniel,

please keep responses on the list so others can comment and learn as well.

Daniel Spannbauer wrote:

Michael Ströder schrieb:

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Daniel Spannbauer wrote:

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Hello,

I have to deleted abount 500 Entrys under a OU in my LDAP-Tree cause I have to change the objectClass from "account" to "inetorgPerson". Can I do this with ldapdelete? I always used that tool only to delete one entry.

Yes. But you have to provide a file with a list of the DNs of the entries to be deleted.

$ ldapdelete -h usage: ldapdelete [options] [dn]... dn: list of DNs to delete. If not given, it will be readed from stdin or from the file specified with "-f file".

(You could also use some of the GUI LDAP clients for that. E.g. my web2ldap supports recursive deletion of all entries below an entry.)

Thats a posibility. But the ldap-Entries are genarated by a Script. So I have to delete it also by this script. So a gui is not the solution that I prefer.

In this case I'd prefer to use a full-featured scripting language with a decent LDAP module to do the job. You have more control in the case of an error than with invoking command-line tools from a shell script.

Ciao, Michael.