cn=config delete with a value to remove causes add.

[389-ds-bot]

Cloned from Pagure issue: https://pagure.io/389-ds-base/issue/49464

• Created at 2017-11-23 14:55:02 by firstyear (@Firstyear)
• Assigned to nobody

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Issue Description

If you issue ldap.modify_s([(ldap.MOD_DELETE, Key, NONE)]) this works.

If you issue ldap.modify_s([(ldap.MOD_DELETE, Key, Value)]), this acts as MOD_ADD, due to a bug in how we pass the value to libglobs.

[389-ds-bot]

Comment from firstyear (@Firstyear) at 2018-01-30 00:15:06

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[389-ds-bot]

Comment from lkrispen (@elkris) at 2020-05-06 16:24:16

If the attribute is required we cannot just delete it, so we would have to reject the delete. But then there is no easy way to reset to the default value (if it is not known).

So what is the request: reject the delete ?