Modifying DN - semi OT

[Al L. <al....@fn...>]

Hi,

I've been trying to understand what happens when modifying a DN as we
work through a Active Directory deployment and permissions issues. I'll
be using Perl-LDAP as the interface to this operation but I'm a bit
confused.

Say I have a DN like this;

dn: CN=lilstrom,OU=Cloned_Users,OU=CD,DC=fermi,DC=win,DC=fnal

and I modify it so that it is

dn: CN=lilstrom,OU=CSI,OU=CD,DC=fermi,DC=win,DC=fnal

What exactly happens on the server? Is the DN just modified or is a new
one created using the attributes of the old one which is then deleted or
?

I've been reading the docs, RFC's, and the modules and I didn't find the
answer.

	tia, al
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Al Lilianstrom
CD/OSS/CSI
Al....@fn...