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Dear All,

It would be really nice, if you could help me to write a script for deletion of list of user( more than 15000 users) stored in a file and sorted by email address( i need deletion of only a particular type of mail address).

Is the any script to write and take the file as input and delete the user from our LDAP data base( LDAP data base is based on Linux Server).

I used to search user through:

Code:

ldapsearch  -h hostname -p XX  -D "cn=Directory Manager" -w XXX "email=ABC@dxyz.com" -b "O=XXX AG,c=XX"

We can delete ldapdele or ldapmodify for deletion, it script is based on this command it would be nice.

Please reply me soon, waiting for your valuable reply.

Thanks in Advance.
Chand

Moderator's Comments:

Use code tags, thanks.

Please use code tags in future when posting commands, logs, data etc. I have changed this in your post already.

You might want to use a loop like a while/read around the command ldapdelete and feed it with that list.
Though to be better safe than sorry you will have a small list of users to delete (let's say 3 of them), instead of all 15.000.

Here you can find the syntax: The ldapsearch, ldapdelete and ldapmodify utilities

It will basically look like this, where you have to change the list and the echo to ldapdelete with the correct command switches etc.:

Code:

$ cat infile
will
martha
pete
$ while read LINE; do echo $LINE; done < infile
will
martha
pete

Thanks for you replay. I guess, my concern is not still resolved.
Let me explain you a bit details, so that you get some idea to help me better.

I have searched the user for particular email address based, then used below command.

Code:

grep "^dn:" XYZ_Backup.ldif | sed 's/^dn: //' >delete_Peoples.ldif

it is giving me the list of user which are supposed to delete from O=AN AG,C=EE, example

Code:

EMAIL=abc.123@dxy.com,O=AN AG,C=EE
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15000 entires....

And this also as DN: EMAIL=abc.123@dxy.com,O=AN AG,C=EE

Please advice me based on looping only script to delete the user from linux servers whole 15000 user without distubing other users in LDAP.

Reagrds,
CHand

I think it still will work like what I posted before. If you did not understand what I wrote or what particular is not matching your request, say so please.
You will have to write the mini script yourself.

Also I asked you to use code tags, which you still don't do so you can use the automatic PM with instructions how and when to use code tags.

If you have a list of users with their dn, then try to use it in the way I have shown already. As also said already, start with maybe 3 users, to not kill any other user account.