Re: Can't delete empty ou

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Tuesday, July 20, 2004 7:28 AM -0700 Jarod Beekman <jbeekman@apu.edu> 
wrote:

>   I have an ou that once contained several objects.  I deleted the
> objects from within the ou but have been unable to remove the ou itself.
> ldapdelete gives the following error:
>
> Delete Result: Operation not allowed on non-leaf (66)
> Additional info: subtree delete not supported
>
> A subtree search on the ou returns nothing but the ou itself and I can't
> see any children beneath it.  The hasSubordinates attribute is still
> TRUE, however.
>
> I'm not sure if there's something that qualifies as a child object
> making this ou non-leaf that I can't see in a regular ldapsearch or if
> there is some other issue, anyone seen this before or have some advice?
>
> RedHat EL AS 3
> Openldap 2.1.22

What is the delete operation you are running?

Also, OpenLDAP 2.1.22 had a number of major issues.  I suggest upgrading to 
at least 2.1.30.

--Quanah

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