Deleting one value from an attribute with multiple values

Page created: 15 Jul 2022 |

Page updated: 5 Dec 2022

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Product Directory Capability Product documentation Content Type Administration User task IT Administrator Administrator Audience Software Deployment Method

Use the LDIF delete subcommand to delete a specific attribute value from an attribute.

Run the ldapmodify tool from the command line.
Specify the modification using changetype:modify.
Specify the attribute pair that you want to delete using delete.
The following sample assumes you have multiple values of cn in an entry, such as cn: Sally Tree, cn: Sally Tea Tree. This sample keeps cn:Sally Tree and deletes the cn: Sally Tea Tree.
```
$ bin/ldapmodify -h server.example.com -p 389 -D "cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com" \
  -w password
dn: uid=user.2004,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com 
changetype: modify 
delete: cn 
cn: Sally Tea Tree
```