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RE: Constraint violation when swapping two unique attributes
> On 2016-12-19 16:20, Bannister, Mark wrote:
> > Howard Chu wrote:
> >> Bannister, Mark wrote:
> >> > I’m using the unique overlay on OpenLDAP 2.4.30 on Solaris 11.3 like this:
> >> > overlay unique [..]
> >> > to force the macAddress to be unique.
> >> > This works well, except if I attempt to swap the macAddress between
> >> > two entries in a single LDAP modify operation, like this:
> >
> >> That's two separate modify operations, not a single operation.
> >
> > Well it's the only way I know to swap the macAddress with a single
> > ldapmodify command.
>
> ..but two operations like Howard said.
Agreed. LDAP doesn't have a swap operation. There's a shame.
> >> Seems unlikely. Why don't you rename the entries instead?
> >
> > Yes I suppose that's the only way to do this. Thanks for the
> > suggestion. The LDIF has been automatically generated by the
> > ldifdiff.pl script, I'll approach the author to see if it’s a change
> > that could be made easily.
>
> These scripts are not really useful because they simply look at entries one by one.
> You should write you own custom script for such a use-case.
Alas, sometimes one has to use existing tools in the interests of time. I have no other complaints with ldifdiff.pl, it's been serving me very well, I like it. May be easier to patch than start again from scratch. I shall take a look.
Thanks,
Mark.
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