[Fedora-directory-users] mass delete : size limit problem

[David Boreham]

Mikael Kermorgant wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'd like to run a script that deletes everything from ou=People (~ 
> 5000 users).
> The problem is that I first run a search and the result size is 
> limited by the server.
>
> Increasing thiis limit would surely work but I don't find it very 
> elegant. Do you see another solution ?

Re-try the operation until you have deleted all the entries (in chunks 
of size sizelimit at a time).