Bulk deletion of users

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Hi, 
 I'm taking over the main administration of the domain for the college I work in, I've come across over 14,500 inactive accounts from the last 6/7/8/? years and want to delete them. 
 These accounts are under the main tree but under different OU's so I'm not sure it's a simple task. 
 I do have a CSV of all the usernames so was hoping there was an easy way to use this. 
 I've looked through the JRBUtils hoping for a nice tool to help but no luck. 
 Can anyone point me in the right direction for bulk deleting users across multiple OU's?

Mathias Braun · Accepted Answer

Well, if you have a list of the affected objects with full context, you can script something to generate an LDIF file in the following format 
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 dn: cn=user1,ou=someOU,o=someOrg changetype: delete dn: cn=user2,ou=anotherOU,o=anotherOrg changetype: delete 
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 Import it from the commandline or within iManager (ICE), if you prefer. 
 Even simpler, if you generate a file in this format 
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 cn=user1,ou=someOU,o=someOrg cn=user2,ou=anotherOU,o=anotherOrg 
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 and save it as let's say "filename.txt" you can enforce it from the CL via e.g. 
 LDAPTLS_REQCERT=never ldapdelete -H ldaps://xx.xx.xx.xx:636 -x -D "cn=admin,o=org" -W < filename.txt

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