Creating A Root Entry From The Command-Line; Adding Entries Using Ldif; Adding And Modifying Entries Using Ldapmodify - Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 8.0 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

Chapter 2. Creating Directory Entries

2.2.2. Creating a Root Entry from the Command-Line

The ldapmodify command-line utility can be used to create a new root entry in a database. For
example:
ldapmodify -a -D bindDN -w password
The ldapmodify utility binds to the server and prepares it to add an entry. The new root object can
then be added, as follows:
dn: Suffix_Name
objectclass: newobjectclass
The DN corresponds to the DN of the root or sub-suffix contained by the database. The
newobjectclass value depends upon the type of object class you are adding to the database. You may
need to specify additional required attributes depending on the type of root object being added.
NOTE
You can use ldapmodify to add root objects only if you have one database per suffix. If
you create a suffix that is stored in several databases, you must use the ldif2db utility
with the -noption parameter to specify the database that will hold the new entries. For
information, see

2.2.3. Adding Entries Using LDIF

You can use an LDIF file to add multiple entries or to import an entire database. To add entries using
an LDIF file and the Directory Server Console:
1. Define the entries in an LDIF file.
LDIF files are described in
2. Import the LDIF file from the Directory Server Console.
Section 4.1.2, "Importing a Database from the Console"
See
formats. When you import the LDIF file, select Append to database in the Import dialog box so
that the server will only import entries that do not currently exist in the directory.
You can also add entries described in an LDIF file from the command-line using the ldapmodify
command with the -f option.

2.2.4. Adding and Modifying Entries Using ldapmodify

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The ldapmodify command can add and modify entries in an existing Directory Server database.
The ldapmodify command opens a connection to the specified server using the supplied
distinguished name and password and modifies the entries based on LDIF update statements
contained in a specified file. Because ldapmodify uses LDIF update statements, ldapmodify can
do everything that ldapdelete can do.
Consider the following when using ldapmodify:
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Section 4.1.4, "Importing from the
Appendix A, LDAP Data Interchange
Command-Line".
Format.
for information about LDIF file