Renaming an entry - PingDirectory

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

Rename an entry by changing the relative distinguished name (RDN) of an entry.

Note:

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

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
```