RE: deleting ldap data

["Jagannatha Reddy" <jagan@datamain.com>]

You can delete only one entry with ldapdelete operation and also you need
authenticate with the DN and password of the directory manager.

To delete the entry "cn=Peter, dc=baruch, dc=cuny, dc=edu", do the
following:

ldapdelete -D "cn=root, dc=baruch, dc=cuny, dc=edu" -w secret "cn=Peter,
dc=baruch, dc=cuny, dc=edu"

where rootdn = "cn=root, dc=baruch, dc=cuny, dc=edu"
	rootpw = "secret"

Also there are LDAP browsers available in public domain. You can use them
to delete the whole branch including all sub-entries.

Hope this helps.

-Jagan

    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
    [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Peter Choe
    Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 2:20 PM
    To: William L Anderson
    Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
    Subject: Re: deleting ldap data


    excuse my ignorance, but i am relatively new to this and i tried to use
    ldapdelete and it didn't seem to work.  i used:

    ldapdelete -D 'cn=*, dc=baruch, dc=cuny, dc=edu'

    it seemed just to freeze.  this process shouldn't take long, right?  i
    only have 6 entries.

    how can i delete the data files?

    peter choe

    William L Anderson wrote:

    > Peter, yes you can use ldapdelete. You can also just delete all the
    > data files in the ldap database directory and start over.
    >
    > Bill Anderson