On 9 Jun 2014, at 23:31, Chris Franz <fr...@unicon.net> wrote:
> I imagine this is obvious to some but it isn't to me. I wrote this simple
> script to update
> a single attribute of an existing 389 entry. It is shown below:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use Net::LDAP;
> use Net::LDAP::Entry;
> use Net::LDAP::LDIF;
> use Net::LDAP::Message;
>
> $ldap = Net::LDAP->new('localhost') or die "$@";
> $bind_mesg = $ldap->bind( "cn=directory manager", password=>"secret" );
> $bind_mesg->code && die $bind_mesg->error;
>
> $search_mesg = $ldap->search(base => "ou=People,dc=crud,dc=edu",
> filter => "uid=someuid");
>
> die "error: ", $mesg->error()
> if (($search_mesg->code()) || ($search_mesg->count !=1));
>
> $cur_entry = $search_mesg->entry(0);
>
> $cur_entry->replace('cn' => 'changedcn');
> $cur_entry->changetype(modify);
> $update_mesg = $cur_entry->update($ldap);
> $update_mesg->code && die $update_mesg->error;
>
> $bind_mesg = $ldap->unbind;
>
> When I include the "$cur_entry->changetype(modify);" line, the script returns:
>
> No attributes to update at ./ldap-update.pl line 23, <DATA> line 751.
>
> If I comment that out, the script works swimmingly. I banged my head on this
> for a while. What am I missing?
Break with the perl debugger at line 23 (which line's that?) and take a look at
things.
The other approach is to think laterally. You don't *need* to read the previous
entry contents to do a modify. Get the DN from $cur_entry, and then build a
modify with that and your desired change.
Typed in Mail:
$update_mesg = $ldap->modify($cur_entry->dn(), replace => { 'cn' => 'changedcn'
});
[replaces $cur->entry->replace('cn' => 'changedcn'); and the 2 following lines.]
The other problem that might occur is if your entry uses cn in the RDN, in
which case you should do a moddn() instead as technically you're renaming the
entry.
Chris
