RE: [Fedora-directory-users] Existing User Accounts

[Esquivel, Vicente]

Thanks for the reply.

I ran the scripts and was able to get all of the users imported into the Directory server.
 The only question is how do I get their email address into the Directory of the passwd
and shadow file information?

Thanks
Vince 

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: fedora-directory-users-bounces(a)redhat.com 
>  [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf 
>  Of Oscar A. Valdez
>  Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 10:38 AM
>  To: General discussion list for the Fedora Directory server project.
>  Subject: Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Existing User Accounts
>  
>  El jue, 06-04-2006 a las 09:49 -0500, Esquivel, Vicente escribió:
>  > I have the Directory server up and running.  My question is 
>  how to get 
>  > the user accounts from one of my servers into the 
>  directory?  I do not 
>  > have an existing ldap or nis server, we are using local systems 
>  > account creation and authentication.  I did a search through the 
>  > archives but wasn't able to come up with anything.  Any 
>  insight would 
>  > be very helpful and appreciated.
>  
>  Try the Migration Tools from PADL software (they are also the 
>  creators of the nss_ldap and pam_ldap modules):
>  
>  http://www.padl.com/OSS/MigrationTools.html
>  
>  You first have to edit migrate_base.pl for your 
>  organization's naming context. The scripts migrate_passwd.pl, 
>  migrate_group.pl, migrate_aliases.pl, etc., will do what 
>  their names suggest. They output in ldif format to standard 
>  output, so you can tweak the results before importing into 
>  your DS server.
>  
>  After importing my existing users, I wrote my own script for 
>  new user creation that generates the ldif stuff.
>  
>  --
>  Oscar A. Valdez
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