[PLUG] OpenLDAP "merge" command?

Matt Alexander lowbassman at gmail.com
Thu Dec 30 05:34:01 UTC 2004


On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:56:38 -0800 (PST), Paul Heinlein
<heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Matt Alexander wrote:
> 
> > I have a very large address book that was exported from MS Outlook,
> > imported into Thunderbird so that I could then export it into LDIF
> > format to then import into an OpenLDAP server.  The problem is that
> > there are numerous duplicates so doing an ldapadd fails as soon as
> > the next identical DN is encountered.  Does anyone know of a way to
> > add an entry and if it already exists then simply update the
> > information with the next occurance?
> 
> Did you try using ldapadd with the -c option?

Nope.  That did it.  Thanks!  You da man!  I'd like everyone in this
virtual room to join me in acknowledging Paul as... DA MAN!!



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