Note:

You cannot rename an RDN if it has children entries because this violates the LDAP protocol.

  1. Run the ldapmodify tool to rename an entry.
    1. Run the changetype, newrdn, and deleteoldrdn directives.

    The following command changes uid=user.14 to uid=user.2014 and uses the changetype, newrdn, and deleteoldrdn directives.

    $ bin/ldapmodify
dn: uid=user.14,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com 
changetype:moddn 
newrdn: uid=user.2014 
deleteoldrdn: 1