Re: Modifying the RDN

[Chris R. <chr...@ma...>]

On 1/10/02 11:22 pm, Ayman Alashquar <as...@at...> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Does any one know how to change the RDN withing a DN , e.g., the DN=
> ou=first,o=world need to be changed to ou=second,o=world knowing that the
> original ou=first has children entries that should not be deleted. We are
> using iPlanet LDAP server 4.x
> 
> I have tried the following LDIF file using ldapmmodify  but it didnot work:
> 
> dn: ou=first,o=world
> changetype: modrdn
> newrdn: ou=second
> deleteoldrdn: 0
> newsuperior: o=world

The 'newsuperior' line looks unnecessary, since the new entry has the same
parent as the old.

It is possible that the server doesn't support renaming a non-leaf entry, ie
an entry with children.

What kind of error do you get back? Use Net::LDAP::Util to convert any error
codes into strings.

Cheers,

Chris