Hard deleting a soft-deleted entry (global configuration)

About this task

Permanently remove a soft-deleted entry from the PingDirectory server.

Steps

To permanently remove a soft-deleted entry, run ldapdelete on the soft-deleted entry.

Example:

The following example assumes that you configured soft deletes as a global configuration for requests.

$ bin/ldapdelete \
  entryUUID=4e9b7847-edcb-3791-b11b-7505f4a55af4+uid=user.1,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com

Processing DELETE request for entryUUID=4e9b7847-edcb-3791-b11b-
7505f4a55af4+uid=user.1,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
DELETE operation successful for DN entryUUID=4e9b7847-edcb-3791-b11b-
7505f4a55af4+uid=user.1,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com

You cannot soft-delete an already soft-deleted entry. If you use the --useSoftDelete subcommand with the ldapdelete operation on a soft-deleted entry, an error message generates.DELETE operation failed. Result Code: 53 (Unwilling to Perform) Diagnostic Message: DELETE operation failed.