Re: LDIF file instead of updating directory

Sorry, you had it right creating the ldif object. it should be just 'change' not 'changes'

Graham.

On Nov 29, 2010, at 16:01 , Dan Cutler wrote:

> Thanks Graham,
> 
> I must still be missing something.  I still get no changetype:modify or the new attr in the LDIF file.
> 
> I changed my $ldif line to be this:
> 
> 	$ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new ('changes.ldif','w', changes => '1');
> 
> And the other lines to be this:
> 	...
> 	my $dne = Net::LDAP::Entry->new;
>      $dne->dn($user);
>      $dne->changetype('modify');
>      $dne->add (  MyCompany-ClientKey  =>  $name );
>      $ldif->write_entry($dne);
>   }
> }
> $ldif->done();
> 
> Am I still missing something or doing something else wrong?
> 
> Thanks again Graham!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Barr [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 4:47 PM
> To: Dan Cutler
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: LDIF file instead of updating directory
> 
> 
> On Nov 29, 2010, at 15:36 , Dan Cutler wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have a quick question about the Net::LDAP::LDIF module.
>> 
>> I noticed that the LDIF module requires the use of Net::LDAP::Entry objects since its methods are all against Entry objects...
>> 
>> The script snippet below is fully capable of updating the directory below, but I'd prefer to create LDIF files rather than direct updates.
> 
> If you create an LDIF object with
> 
> my $ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new( "file.ldif", "w", changes => 1);
> 
> then you can call $ldif->write_entry($dne); for each entry
> 
> and call $ldif->done; at the end of your script. you should have an ldif file with changetype: modify entries in it.
> 
> Graham.
> 
>> 
>> If I uncomment these two lines, the script will update directly and it works.
>> 
>>     #my $result = $dne->update($AD_ldap);
>>     #$result->code && warn "failed to add entry for $user ", $result->error ;
>> 
>> Unfortunately, the LDIF file only contains the DN of the user followed by an add line like this:
>> 
>> dn: CN=Dan Cutler,OU=ClientX,DC=MyCompany,DC=com
>> MyCompany-ClientKey: ClientX
>> 
>> The LDIF file is missing everything else. (like "changetype: modify", and the new attribute name "MyCompany-ClientKey").
>> 
>> Any Suggestions?
>> 
>> Thanks!!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> $AD_ldap = Net::LDAP->new($AD_host) or die "$@";
>> 
>> $ldif = new Net::LDAP::LDIF ('Mirgrate_ou_name_to_attr.ldif','w',
>>                             encode => 'base64',
>>                             change => '1');
>> 
>> # bind for searches using system account
>> my $AD_mesg = $AD_ldap->bind( $AD_bind_user, password => $AD_bind_pw, port => 3268);
>> if ($AD_mesg->code) { print "AD bind failed with ", $AD_mesg->code , "\n"; }
>> 
>> 
>> my $AD_result = $AD_ldap->search ( base   => $base_dn,
>>                       filter => '(objectclass=organizationalUnit)',
>>                       scope  => 'one',
>>                       attrs  => ['name']
>>                       );
>> 
>> my @AD_entries = $AD_result->entries;
>> 
>> 
>> # Get AD OUs
>> print "AD OUs =========================================\n";
>> 
>> foreach my $ADentr ( @AD_entries ) {
>>  my $name = $ADentr->get_value('name');
>>  my $dn = $ADentr->dn();
>>  print "Finding users under OU $dn with name = $name...\n";
>> 
>>  my @users = users_under_ou($dn,'AD');   # sub returns all user DNs with scope=base and baseDN is the group DN
>> 
>>  foreach my $user (@users) {
>>     print "Modifying User $user setting MyCompany-ClientKey to $name\n";
>>     my $dne = Net::LDAP::Entry->new;
>>     $dne->dn($user);
>>     $dne->changetype('modify');
>>     $dne->add (  MyCompany-ClientKey  =>  $name );
>>     #my $result = $dne->update($AD_ldap);
>>     #$result->code && warn "failed to add entry for $user ", $result->error ;
>>     #$dne->dump();
>>     $ldif->write($dne);
>>  }
>>  print "\n";
>> }
>> 
>> --Dan
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