moving users and groups to an ou ?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 10:49 +0200, denis.bonnenfant wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm working on adding support in samba-tool for moving users and groups 
> to OUs, just like the windows mmc utility does. This is required for 
> command-line GPO support.
> 
> Basically for moving user to ou=new_ou, I tried something like :
> ...
> m = samdb.search(base=dc=example, expression="(samaccountname=user)")
> samdb.delete(m[0].dn)
> m[0].dn =  "cn=user,ou=new_ou,dc=example"
> samdb.add(m[0].dn)
> ....
> But I'm getting errors, as  some constraints in samdb prevents some  
> attributes to be written directly (primarygroup...)
> 
> I tried with an ldif message, but i get the same errors. My conclusion 
> is that I have to bypass the samdb module constraints,  is there a way 
> to do that in python ? And in this case, does the groups memberships 
> will be updated ?

Why are you not just renaming the users?  You cannot just delete and add
users like that.

Andrew Bartlett

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