Re: changing the dn; various breakage.

[Jurgen B. <ju...@bo...>]

Mark Wilcox wrote:
> You can't use a standard modify to just change the DN of the entry. You
> must do a modrdn (can't remember if that's in the current api or not,
> check the docs).

It is, $ldap->moddn.  This works now to changed the RDN.  However, I also
need to be able to change the superior, and Netscape Dir Server 4.11 barfs
on $ldap->moddn($dn, 'newsuperior' => $newsuper) with:
   Error: LDAP_PARAM_ERROR -- An invalid parameter was specified

> If you want to use modify to change the dn of an entry, you must copy all
> of the attributes from the old entry into an Entry object, set the new dn
> and then add that object to the server.

Ok, makes sense... I gather being able to change the superior is not
an LDAP v3 requirement.  So I have to do as you say, and the following
works nicely and is simple enough:
   
   $result = $ldap->search( ... $base=$olddn ...)
   $entry = $result->shift_entry;
   $entry->dn($newdn);
   $ldap->delete($olddn);
   $ldap->add($entry);

(At least in my case I must do the delete before the add because some
of the attributes have indexes that require them to be globally unique).

Thanks to Graham and Mark for the help!

- Jurgen