Yes - I did try what you suggested. The error I got is that no attributes are available for updating. *grr!* There was some other thing I saw in Net::LDAP::Entry about using 'newrdn' attribute and changetype('moddn').. that didn't work either. Here's what I did to create an LDIF:

    open(FILE, ">$u.ldif");

    Net::LDAP::LDIF->new(\*FILE, "w")->write($entry);

    close FILE;
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Here's the result:

dn: cn=6c2f995b-c1de-41ee-8b70-07f134dac04a,ou=Misc,<censored>
objectclass: person
objectclass: inetOrgPerson
objectclass: organizationalPerson
objectclass: CourierMailAccount
objectclass: CourierMailAlias
objectclass: posixAccount
objectclass: shadowAccount
sn: McRitchie
cn: T McRitchie
cn: 6c2f995b-c1de-41ee-8b70-07f134dac04a
givenname: T
mail: tmcritchie@<censored>
o: Misc
telephonenumber: unknown
title: unknown
roomnumber: unknown
homedirectory: /home/tmcritchie
userpassword: {MD5}<censored>
uidnumber: 20003
gidnumber: 20003
maildrop: tmcritchie
shadowlastchange: 99999
shadowmax: 99999
shadowwarning: 7
uid: tmcritchie
gecos: tmcritchie
loginshell: /bin/false
quota: 50
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