Bulk Delete Users From Oracle Internet Directory (OID)

Using ldapsearch and ldapdelete commands to remove OID users

1. First, you need to know what is the directory tree of users that you want to perform the deletion on (s_UserContainerDN), source of subscriber DN.

2. Get all the user entries first using ldapsearch command and spool it to a file

$ ldapsearch -h [oid_hostname] -p [oid_ldap_port] -D "cn=orcladmin" -w [password] -s one -b "cn=Users,[source subscriber DN]" "(objectclass=orcluserv2)" "cn=*" > users.ldif
Example:

$ ldapsearch -h [oid_hostname] -p [oid_ldap_port] -D "cn=orcladmin" -w [password] -s one -b "cn=Users,dc=spain,dc=oracle,dc=com" "(objectclass=orcluserv2)" "cn=*" > users.ldif

3. Edit the spool output ldif file, users.ldif to remove entires which you want to preserve such as orcladmin,Portal and public. You may want to preserve the following seeded users:

cn=orcladmin,cn=Users,[source subscriber DN]
cn=ias_admin,cn=Users,[source subscriber DN]
cn=PUBLIC,cn=Users,[source subscriber DN]
cn=Portal<*>,cn=Users,[source subscriber DN]
cn=sample<*>,cn=Users,[source subscriber DN]
cn=synd<*>,cn=Users,[source subscriber DN]
cn=uddi<*>,cn=Users,[source subscriber DN]

(Note:Example above include users/entries that could be seeded by certain midtier installs, so they may or may not exist in a particular OID)

4. Use the ldapdelete command along with the edited output ldif file to delete all the users:

$ ldapdelete -h [oid_hostname] -p [oid_ldap_port] -D "cn=orcladmin" -w [password] -c -v -f users.ldif

deleting entry cn=UNCLE_SAM,cn=Users,dc=spain,dc=oracle,dc=com
entry removed
deleting entry cn=LARRY_ELISSON,cn=users,dc=spain,dc=oracle,dc=com
entry removed

Note:Before removing users remove the users from the users.ldif which you dont want to delete.

There is one more command which is given below which might be helpful in some cases.
ldapadd -h myhost -p 389 -D "cn=orcladmin" -w welcome -f users.ldif