Adding attributes to an ldap entry

I needed to add some values to a diferent entries on a ldap server,

first I needed to add this attributes to the objectclass the entries where from, once it was done I made a script to add the values to the entries automatically. these are the steps a followed. (this only works if the values are the same for all the entries)

first, extract de entries, in this cases users:

ldapsearch  -h 172.24.57.20 -p 369 -s one -b "cn=it,cn=usuarios,o=com" "(&(objectclass=COM_Usuario))" > temp.txt

I extracted just the dn: of the entries and dumped them to the depurado.txt file:

grep "^cn=[a-z,A-Z,1234567890]*,cn=it,cn=usuarios,o=com"  < temp.txt > depurado.txt

execute de script, here is the content, the script will create a file with a ldif extructure to do the modifications to the ldap server.

#!/bin/bash

echo "" > final.ldif
for i in `cat depurado.txt`
do 

echo "dn: $i" >> final.ldif
echo changetype:modify >> final.ldif
echo add:department >> final.ldif
echo department: it >> final.ldif
echo " " >> final.ldif
done

do the changes with ldaomodify:

ldapmodify -h 172.24.x.x -D "cn=root" -w password -p 369 -r -f final.ldif

checking:

ldapsearch  -h 172.24.x.x -p 8182 -s sub  -b "cn=it,cn=usuarios,o=com" "(cn=usertolookfor)"

Interesting links:

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http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/network.920/a96579/comtools.htm#632173

Archivo:Curso openldap.pdf