If user accounts that you want to use in the Novell® Identity Manager Fan-Out driver do not exist in eDirectory™, you can import them from the system where they are currently located. You can use tools such as UIMPORT or LDIF to accomplish this.
If you cannot extract the passwords of the affected user accounts, you must either give each of these users a new password or find some way to synchronize the passwords of the new user accounts in eDirectory with the passwords of their pre-existing accounts.
If these pre-existing accounts are located on an z/OS system, you can use the Password Migration component to accomplish a smooth migration to eDirectory-based user accounts. The Password Migration component updates a migration user’s password in eDirectory from the z/OS system when a user logs on.
Deploy the driver on only that z/OS system until the migration period is complete. Then you can add other platforms.
The migration requires a cooperative effort between the z/OS system administrator and the driver administrator. For information related to the steps in the following procedure that involve the core driver, see the Core Driver Administration Guide.