Re: Deleting LDAP entries

[M Butcher <mbutcher@grcomputing.net>]

You can also do a recursive delete of the top node of your LDAP
hierarchy -- e.g. use the ldapdelete command with the -r option (for
recursive). 'man ldapdelete' for more info.

An example:

ldapdelete -x -W -D "cn=Manager,dc=mydomain,dc=com" -r
"dc=mydomain,dc=com"


Matt



On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 07:36, pll+ldap@lanminds.com wrote:
> In a message dated: Mon, 26 May 2003 15:55:37 EDT
> V Alex Brennen said:
> 
> >On Mon, 26 May 2003, Shahin wrote:
> >
> >> Hi list,
> >> how can I delete all entries in LDAP ???
> >
> >The easiest way to do this with OpenLDAP is to simply remove
> >the databases in which the entries are stored.  Essentially,
> >to start over from scratch as far as your dbs.  If there is 
> >anything you want to keep, you can export it to LDIF and 
> >reload it after the dbs have been recreated.
> 
> Or, if for some reason, you don't want to do that, you can do 
> something like:
> 
> 	ldapsearch -x '(cn=*)' dn | grep ^dn | sed 's/dn: //' | ldapdelete -x
> 
> Or some variation on that theme with the appropriate options thrown in
> for your config.  Of course, just deleting the dbs is a lot easier :)
-- 
M Butcher <mbutcher@grcomputing.net>