[389-users] Delete users from different groups

Mark Reynolds mareynol at redhat.com
Wed Aug 8 19:22:41 UTC 2012


Fosiul,

The best practice is to first locate the groups that the user belongs to 
by using a search filter like this:

ldapsearch -D "cn=directory manager" -w password -b "dc=example,dc=com" 
"(|(uniquemember=uid=name,dc=example,dc=com)(memberUid=uid=name,dc=example,dc=com))"

Of course you could easily expand this filter to include other 
attributes like member:

(|(uniquemember=uid=name,dc=example,dc=com)(memberUid=uid=name,dc=example,dc=com)(member=uid=name,dc=example,dc=com))

Then you can do a ldapmodify to remove the user from the group(s):

ldapmodify -D "cn=directory manager" -w password
dn: cn=group,dc=example,dc=com
changetype: modify
delete: uniquemember
uniquemember: uid=name,dc=example,dc=com

Mark

On 08/08/2012 02:53 PM, Fosiul Alam wrote:
> Hi
> I need some idea how to do this .
>
> I know how to delete a user from a group.
>
> but problem is
> I am trying to write a script which will delete user from different group..
> also there is  a problem
> Some users in added as uniquemeber and some users has been added a mumberUid"
>
> but dont understand .. how to processed
> is there any thought ?? or advise ??
>
>
> Thanks
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