RE: [Fwd] retrieve perl-ldap schema and ldap search

[Mike S. <msc...@bo...>]

I want to remove three objectclasses and twenty-three attributetypes.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Harle [mailto:ha...@us...]
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 3:51 PM
To: Mike Schatzabel
Cc: LDAP Mailing List
Subject: RE: [Fwd] retrieve perl-ldap schema and ldap search


Mike,
  I haven't tried that yet, but will try to move you forward a bit.  The
first questions is: what do you wan't to remove from the schema - an
entire object class or an attribute or something else?

  --Jim

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Mike Schatzabel wrote:

> Jim,
> 
> I'm new to LDAP and very new to perl-ldap, so please forgive my ignorance
> ahead of time.
> Do you happen to know of a way to delete items from the schema? 
> I'm using your script to retrieve the schema from an NDS server, and I'm
> then taking part of the search result and attempting to delete a few
> objectclasses and attributetypes. 
> 
> I don't think that  $ldap->delete( $dn ); will do it for me.
> 
> Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Mike Schatzabel
> Software Quality Engineer
> Bowstreet
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Harle [mailto:ha...@us...]
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 2:47 PM
> To: Eric Zhou
> Cc: LDAP Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Fwd] retrieve perl-ldap schema and ldap search
> 
> 
> Eric,
>   I have attached code that will find all attributes without using
> ldap->schema().
> 
>   For your second question, it depends on what you want to really search
> for.  If all you want to know is whether an object of a given dn exists,
> you can use code like
>   $mesg = $ldap->search ( 
>           base => $testdn,
>           scope => 0,
>           filter => "(objectclass=*)" );
> If the search succeeds, $testdn already exists.
> 
> If you, however, want to make sure that you are adding an object where the
> lowest level of the dn is unique, the search is different.  This might be
> when you are looking to add a user with uid=joe, but you want to make sure
> that not only is there not a "joe" in dept1, but not anywhere.  If this is
> the case, then you need to make sure that all your users have a uid
> attribute, not just uid as part of the dn.  Then the search becomes
>   $mesg  = $ldap->search (
>            base => $normalbase
>            filter => "(uid=$testuid)" );
> 
>   Jim Harle
>   US Naval Academy
> 
> 
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Graham Barr wrote:
> 
> > ----- Forwarded message from Eric Zhou <eri...@ya...> -----
> > 
> > Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:55:36 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Eric Zhou <eri...@ya...>
> > Subject: retrieve perl-ldap schema and ldap search
> > To: Graham Barr <gb...@po...>
> > 
> > hi,Graham:
> > 
> > remember I asked you an address the other day about
> > two perl module. I am still not that far yet.
> > I have been able to use ldap->add() and ldap->modify()
> > function to do some simple stuff.
> > 
> > do you have some handy example of how to use
> > ldap->schema to retrieve schema of ldap tree?
> > the other thing is that I don't quite understand 
> > your ldap->search() doing. because I wish to search 
> > and dn in the ldap tree and see if it is there before
> > I insert it. do I suppose to use ldap->search() or 
> > ldap->compare().
> > 
> > 
> > thank you very much.
> > 
> > Eric 
> > 
> > 
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