[Fedora-directory-users] Importing Linux Users

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 13:55 -0700, Scott Miller wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
>    Here's my situation.  I currently use Sendmail as my mail transport, and 
> also have imap capabilities.  Recently, we purchased a barracuda Spam 
> Firewall to help reduce the amount of spam our customers receive.  We have 5 
> domains on our mail server, so basically any user has 5 available e-mail 
> addresses (ya, not the best way to do it, but that's how it was when I got 
> here).  With the barracuda, in order for it NOT to create a new spam account 
> (or box) for each of the 5 e-mail addresses our customers have, it requires 
> our mail server to run LDAP.  Well, OK - if that's what it needs.
> 
>    In my search for building an LDAP server, I came across the Fedora 
> Directory Server Project.  Since I'm in the process of upgrading (replacing) 
> my servers with Fedora Core 4 (forklift upgrade), I was hoping this might 
> just be a perfect fit.
> 
>    Now here's my question.  Before I start in on this task, is there an 
> "easy" way to import normal linux users into the LDAP database on the new 
> server?  Granted, I've only spent a few days researching this question, and 
> have come up blank everywhere I've looked.  The answer is probably out there 
> somewhere, so if someone could possibly point me in the right direction, it 
> would be greatly appriciated.  I'm hoping to stay away from entering the 
> information for each and every customer we have.
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Install openldap-servers rpm

locate scripts in /usr/share/openldap/migration

Craig