Modifying An Entry Using Ldif - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.2 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Also, for the same reasons that you cannot delete an entry if it is a branch point,
you cannot rename an entry if it has any children. Doing so would orphan the
children in the tree, which is not allowed by the LDAP protocol. For example, of
the following three entries:
ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
cn=Paula Simon,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
cn=Jerry O'Connor,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
you can rename only the last two entries. The entry that identifies the People
subtree can be renamed only if no other entries exist below it.

Modifying an Entry Using LDIF

Use
changetype:modify
values to the entry. When you specify
a change operation to indicate how the entry is to be modified. Change operations
can be as follows:
add: attribute
•
Adds the specified attribute or attribute value. If the attribute type does not
currently exist for the entry, then the attribute and its corresponding value are
created. If the attribute type already exists for the entry, then the specified
attribute value is added to the existing value. If the particular attribute value
already exists for the entry, then the operation fails and the server returns an
error.
replace: attribute
•
The specified values are used to entirely replace the attribute's value(s). If the
attribute does not already exist, it is created. If no replacement value is
specified for the attribute, the attribute is deleted.
delete: attribute
•
The specified attribute is deleted. If more than one value of an attribute exists
for the entry, then all values of the attribute are deleted in the entry. To delete
just one of many attribute values, specify the attribute and associated value on
the line following the delete change operation.
This section contains the following topics:
• Adding Attributes to Existing Entries Using LDIF
• Changing an Attribute Value Using LDIF
• Deleting All Values of an Attribute Using LDIF
to add, replace, or remove attributes and/or attribute
changetype:modify
LDIF Update Statements
, you must also provide
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