RE: Modifying the RDN

[Ayman A. <as...@at...>]

Thanks alot for your reply.

The error says that I cannot change the RDN for a non-leaf object.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Ayman

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Ridd [mailto:chr...@ma...]
Sent: 26 NIE, 1423 09:15 O
To: Ayman Alashquar; per...@li...
Subject: Re: Modifying the RDN


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