On 2/2/2010 1:38 PM, patrick.morris at hp.com wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Feb 2010, Sean Carolan wrote:
>
>>> Incidentally, that may also answer your other question about how to
>>> disable local shadow file passwords.
>>
>> Any suggestions for migrating accounts from /etc/shadow into the LDAP
>> database? I tried this LdapImport perl script but it threw a bunch of
>> errors and ultimately failed:
>
> At the time I did the initial import here, I put together a really ugly
> shell script that used a few cuts, greps and/or seds against the passwd
> and shadow files to build an LDIF, and then dumped it in with an
> ldapmodify command.
>
> It's actually easier than it sounds once you're familiar with the
> posixAccount schema and which passwd attribute maps to which LDAP
> attribute.
This seems like something basically everyone would need when starting
with LDAP. Is there a more standard way to do it?
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
