Jim Summers wrote:

Hello List,

While working with some scripts for my development ldap. I was trying to remove the ou=People and got the following error:

ldap_delete: Operation not allowed on non-leaf (66)

The ldif file has two basic lines in it:
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dn: ou=People,dc=xxx,dc=xxx,dc=xxx
changetype: delete
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I have used this same syntax to drop other ou's in the tree. So I wasn't sure why this ou is considered a non-leaf?? Or honestly I am not sure what a leaf is, in regards to ldap?

A "leaf" entry is an entry with no children. A "non-leaf" entry is an entry with at least 1 child. LDAP does not allow you to delete an entry that has children. You must delete the children first before deleting the parent.

Any good reading material?

I could delete each entry in the People container and then re-populate, but that seems like a noisy way of doing things in regards to the multi master replicas I have running.

Depending on how many entries you have under your People container, you may find it faster to export to LDIF -> sed/awk/perl to remove the entries -> import modified LDIF file.


Q. Why am I doing this?
A. I am temporarily manually sync'ing a production iplanet 5.1 ldap. I had thought about trying the multi-master scripts from the HOW-TO's but I was a little hesistant. Hopefully by this summer I will be fully migrated over to the FDS-ldap.

Ideas / suggestions?

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