Adding, Modifying, and Deleting Entries in Bulk

When you perform an ldapmodify operation, you are able to add, modify, or delete entries in bulk. Entries are specified in an LDIF file that contains update statements to modify or delete existing entries. This operation does not erase entries that already exist.

The changed entries may target any suffix that is managed by your Directory Server. As with any other operation that adds entries, the server will index all new entries as they are imported.

The ldapmodify command will import an LDIF file through LDAP and perform all operations that the file contains. Using this command you can modify data in all directory suffixes at the same time.

Before restoring suffixes involved in replication agreements, see Restoring Replicated Suffixes.

To Add, Modify and Delete Entries in Bulk

All LDIF files that you import must use UTF-8 character-set encoding.

When importing an LDIF file, parent entries must either exist in the directory or be added first from the file.

You can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help.

1. Add, modify, or delete from an LDIF file in bulk.

   $ ldapmodify -D cn=admin,cn=Administrators,cn=config -w - -B baseDN -f LDIF-file

   The following example performs an import using the ldapmodify command. You do not need root privileges to run this command, but you must authenticate as a user with root permissions, such as cn=Directory Manager or cn=admin,cn=Administrators,cn=config. The last parameter specifies the name of the LDIF file to import.

   $ ldapmodify -D cn=admin,cn=Administrators,cn=config -w - \ -B dc=example,dc=com -f /local/ds/ldif/demo.ldif