I need to delete a user from SLOX. I have deleted them from Suse but I get an error when trying to re-add them again ( somehow the uid is bad/corrupt whatever) . LDAP is telling me they still exist unable to create blah blah.
I have tried ldapdelete -W -D "cn=bob, dc=capital, dc=com" but I get ldap asking me for a password ....I have no idea what it is?! Is it the users password?, My admin password?

Is there a place to edit the ldap file to remove them ? I just want to clean it up so I can re-add them. The challenge came when I discovered that the user in SUse must be the same as the SLOX. I think I added the SLOX user 1st ....anyway its all gummed up. Any help is appreciated!!

hi...sometimes console commands can lead to considerable hair pulling...

why dont u install a GUI ldap client 'GQ'...and then delete your user just with a right click ? its easy and works just as fine...get a rpm for 'gq' and ldap server modifications will become easier...

try this and good luck

--amit

Hey amit ...thanks for the help. I got GQ going but when I right click and choose 'delete' I get the msg
Any ideas what this is all about?

Yes, the password that's being asked is the password for 'cn=bob'...If you have set up ldap correctly, then this password would appear in the file slapd.conf as follows -

rootpw secret

I am also a beginner as far as ldap is concerned, however, I followed the 'idealx' documentation and use the 'idealx' smbldap scripts for manipulating ldap data. This is an excellent tutorial as far as setting up ldap, samba together is concerned. Take a cue here..

www.idealx.org/prj/samba/smbldap-howto.en.html

I downloaded the smbldap-tools-0.8.5.i386.rpm from the idealx site and deleting a user is just a child's play...The command for deleting a user above would be

smbldap-userdel -r <username>

Give this site a try and lets hope u succeed

Cheers

--amit