[GH-ISSUE #569] Unsupported operation: DelRequest #203

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opened 2026-02-27 08:15:51 +03:00 by kerem · 4 comments

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Originally created by @fengerzh on GitHub (May 5, 2023).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/lldap/lldap/issues/569

When use ldapdelete command to delete an entry, an error showed as below:

# ldapdelete "uid=aaaa,ou=people,dc=some,dc=com" -H ldap://ldap.server.com:3890 -D "uid=admin,ou=people,dc=some,dc=com" -w "adminpassword"
deleting entry "uid=aaaa,ou=people,dc=some,dc=com"
ldap_delete: Server is unwilling to perform (53)
	additional info: Unsupported operation: DelRequest(
    "uid=aaaa,ou=people,dc=some,dc=com",
)

Originally created by @fengerzh on GitHub (May 5, 2023). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/lldap/lldap/issues/569 When use `ldapdelete` command to delete an entry, an error showed as below: ``` # ldapdelete "uid=aaaa,ou=people,dc=some,dc=com" -H ldap://ldap.server.com:3890 -D "uid=admin,ou=people,dc=some,dc=com" -w "adminpassword" deleting entry "uid=aaaa,ou=people,dc=some,dc=com" ldap_delete: Server is unwilling to perform (53) additional info: Unsupported operation: DelRequest( "uid=aaaa,ou=people,dc=some,dc=com", ) ```

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@nitnelave commented on GitHub (May 5, 2023):

That is indeed an unsupported operation. What's your use case? The recommended way to modify users on the server is either the web frontend or the GraphQL API.

@nitnelave commented on GitHub (May 5, 2023): That is indeed an unsupported operation. What's your use case? The recommended way to modify users on the server is either the web frontend or the GraphQL API.

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2026-02-27 08:15:52 +03:00

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@fengerzh commented on GitHub (May 7, 2023):

I'd like to synchronize members with another database, when some user quit, programatically delete the user from ldap.

@fengerzh commented on GitHub (May 7, 2023): > I'd like to synchronize members with another database, when some user quit, programatically delete the user from ldap.

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@nitnelave commented on GitHub (May 7, 2023):

In that case, the recommended way is to use the GraphQL API

@nitnelave commented on GitHub (May 7, 2023): In that case, the recommended way is to use the GraphQL API

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@nitnelave commented on GitHub (Jan 22, 2024):