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Re: Deleting certain attribute in all entries

At 06:00 AM 5/15/00 -0700, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>At 09:06 AM 5/15/00 +0200, Jan-Piet Mens wrote:
>>Something like this works for me:
>>
>>	ldapsearch attribute=* dn |
>
>Technically, dn is not an attribute (though our server treats
>it as such).  I recommend this instead requesting attribute
>type 1.1.
>	ldapsearch "(attribute=*)" 1.1
>
>As no attribute type has the OID 1.1, the following will
>only return the entry without any attributes.
>
>>	grep -v '^$' |
>>	while read dn
>>	do
>>		echo "dn: $dn"
>		echo "changetype: delete"

typo: s/delete/modify/

>>		echo "delete: attribute"
>>		echo ""
>
>You can also use replace:
>
>		echo "dn: $dn"
>		echo "changetype: modify"
>		echo "replace: attribute"
>		echo "-"
>		echo ""
>
>Replacing the attribute with no values also deletes the
>attribute and should be successful even where the attribute
>does not exist.
>
>For details see slapd.replog(5) and ldapmodify(1).
>
>>	done | ldapmodify -D "cn=manager,o=xx" -w secret
>>
>>Regards,
>>	-JP
>>
>>On Sun, 14 May 2000, Marian Steinbach wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to know the easiest way to erase one atribute,
>>> disregarding it´s value, from all directory entries that have
>>> this attribute.
>>
>>
>
>