Re: Deleting a tree

[Jon Miner <miner@doit.wisc.edu>]

* Raf Meeusen (meeusen@acunia.com) [030106 11:34]:
> > What is the absolute fastest way to delete a subtree in open ldap?  I know
> > about ldapdelete, but is there another way to do it?
> 
> ldapdelete is the safest way to do it, and probably the fastest too.  You 
> could consider editing your backend-DB directly, but it would require 
> extensive DB knowledge (not mentioning the probability of a corrupted 
> LDAP tree)...

With ldapdelete you'll have to delete the tree from leaves down..  You
can't just delete the root of a tree that has children..

jon

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