Automation: how to change LDAP attribute for all users

Zimbra Automation: How to change an LDAP attribute for all users

   KB 22377        Last updated on 2015-10-3  




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Purpose

The purpose of this script is to show how a single attribute value can be changed for all users in LDAP. The reason I made this article was an incident, where all mobile users were unable to sync, because their zimbraCreateTimestamp attribute value was in the future. This script explains how to change the value of this attribute for all users.

Script

#!/bin/bash

echo "setting ldap variables"
source ~/bin/zmshutil
zmsetvars
sleep 2

for i in `ldapsearch -x -H $ldap_master_url -D $zimbra_ldap_userdn -w $zimbra_ldap_password | grep uid=| cut -d : -f 2 | sed 's/^\ //g'`
do

ldapmodify -x -H $ldap_master_url -D $zimbra_ldap_userdn -w $zimbra_ldap_password << EOF
dn: $i
changetype: modify
replace: zimbraCreateTimestamp
zimbraCreateTimestamp: 20140918100701Z

EOF

done
Verified Against: Zimbra Collaboration 8.7, 8.6, 8.5, 8.0 Date Created: 10/02/2015
Article ID: https://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=Automation:_how_to_change_LDAP_attribute_for_all_users Date Modified: 2015-10-03



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Wiki/KB reviewed by SME1 SME2 Copyeditor Last edit by Jorge de la Cruz
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