[Fedora-directory-users] Existing User Accounts

[Esquivel, Vicente]

Ok I am a total newbie to the Directory so bear with me.  Do you accomplish this by going to the configuration tab then selecting schema?

Vince 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:fedora-directory-users-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf 
> Of George Holbert
> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 3:22 PM
> To: General discussion list for the Fedora Directory server project.
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Existing User Accounts
> 
> The usual attribute for email addresses is "mail".
> You may need to add another objectclass (like inetOrgPerson) 
> to your objects in order for the mail attribute to be available.
> 
> Esquivel, Vicente wrote:
> > 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 at redhat.com
> >> [mailto:fedora-directory-users-bounces at redhat.com] 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.
> >>
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