Re: New superior without new RDN

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Dave Horsfall wrote:
> OpenLDAP 2.3.32
>
> How do I move an entry to a new superior without changing the RDN as well?  
> I cannot find any examples of this (at least, none that works).

test006, test007, test017, test018, test019, test032, test040, test043, 
test045, test046, test048...

Wherever you were looking, you should always start by looking in the 
source distro itself.

>     dn: uid=dhtest,dc=coreng,dc=com,dc=au
>     changeType: modDN
>     newRDN: dhtest
>     deleteOldRDN: 1
>     newSuperior: ou=systems,dc=coreng,dc=com,dc=au
>     -
>
> Fails with:
>
>     ldapmodify: invalid format (line 6) entry: 
>     "uid=dhtest,dc=coreng,dc=com,dc=au"
>     Failed to update entry.

"-" is invalid in a modDN request. And yes, newRDN must be an actual 
RDN, not just a naked value.

> I already discovered that I need "newRDN" i.e. just "newSuperior" won't
> cut it.
>
> Or must I use "ldapmodrdn", and risk a race condition if making several
> changes to the same entry?

ldapmodify doesn't do anything different from ldapmodrdn here.

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