Modifying a soft-deleted entry
Modify a soft-deleted entry the same as a regular entry using the ldapmodify
tool. The entry remains hidden in its soft-deleted state after the change.
About this task
Soft-deleted entries can be modified like any regular entry. The only restriction is that you cannot change the distinguished name (DN) or run a moddn
operation. To move a soft-deleted entry from one machine to another, use the move-subtree
command and specify the DN of the soft-deleted entry.
To modify a soft-deleted entry, the user needs the |
Steps
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To modify a soft-deleted entry, run the
ldapmodify
command and specify the soft-deleted DN.Example:
$ bin/ldapmodify dn: entryUUID=4e9b7847-edcb-3791-b11b-7505f4a55af4+uid=user.1,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com changetype:modify replace:telephoneNumber telephoneNumber: +1 390 103 6918 # Processing MODIFY request for entryUUID=4e9b7847-edcb-3791-b11b-7505f4a55af4+uid=user.1,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com # MODIFY operation successful for DN entryUUID=4e9b7847-edcb-3791-b11b-7505f4a55af4+uid=user.1,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com