Chris Ridd <chrisr...@mac.com> wrote: > I would note that storing entries subordinate to user entries is rather > unusual.
yes, it is, the idea was to hold all related to user branches in one single root here there is the diagram of DB topology: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/z-eos/umi/master/doc/umi-db-diagram-plane.png > So there are two cases to consider: > * user B already exists yes, it is the idea is to reassign some existing subordinate branch to another existent user > In the first case, you can iterate through all of user A's immediate > children and modifydn each of them. it is just what I do, but it involves a lot of „hand“ work (the URL I provided in my initial post) > Do you delete user A at the end? no, the idea is to delegate some service of user A to user B > Alternative in the first case, you could delete user B first and then > just use modifydn once to move user A to user B. no, it is not what is needed since user B has his own, assigned to him services > You may need to refine your question a bit more. was I successful in that? > Net::LDAP's moddn method does not take a „recursively“ option. may it sound sane to add it to the method? > The LDAP modifydn operation is already defined to move all the entry's > children. I believe, it'd be great to have something like that in Net::LDAP too ... -- Zeus V. Panchenko jid:z...@im.ibs.dn.ua IT Dpt., I.B.S. LLC GMT+2 (EET)
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