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How to migrate users from passwd to openLDAP, on a SLES 10 server
The openLDAP packages that Novell put in place on SLES 10 did not include the migration tools.
There are some good migration tools to turn your /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/shadow files into a ldap database.
Please see http://www.padl.com/OSS/MigrationTools.html
Let's suppose you copied the Migration files from the padl web site to the /tmp directory. You can use the following command line to execute it:
/tmp/migrate_passwd.pl /etc/passwd >> /tmp/ldap.ldif
Now you have to import /tmp/ldap.ldif file into your ldap database. In order to do that, you will have to run ldapadd command like the following one:
ldapadd -x -f /tmp/ldap.ldif -D "<YOUR ROOTDN VALUE>" -w password
Example:
ldapadd -x -f /tmp/ldap.ldif -D cn=administrator,o=novell -w password
Make sure to do backups first!
Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).
It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.
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