Erling Ringen Elvsrud wrote: > I have managed to make Windows sync work and have one user synced from AD in > my directory. > The posixUser-attributes are still empty. How do you populate those > attributes in an effective way? > You can't, really, and even if you did, they would not be synced. Windows Sync ignores them. > If I have an empty directory, and the users alredy exists in AD I have > been thinking of this manual approach: > > 1. Perform a full re-sync from AD. > 2. Export all the users in directory server in a LDIF-file and with scripts > populate the needed attributes like uid, shell, home, etc. > 3. Write the changes back in directory server. > > For new users, if not too many, perform the needed changes manually. > > What do you think? Is it possible to do this automatically with Windows > Sync or do I have to use approaches like I described? > That should work. But note that posix attributes will not sync to AD. And even if you did manage to find a posix schema that worked with AD, and added the posix schema on the AD side, those attributes would not be synced to Fedora DS. > Thanks, > > Erling > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users >
