[Fedora-directory-users] adding users

[George Holbert]

>  is there some way to create an ldif file programatically and then use 
> ldapadd?

Absolutely.  The simplest case might be just a shell script that prompts 
for each value that constitutes a new user, then prints that to stdout  
in LDIF format, which could be piped to ldapmodify.


Steve Strong wrote:
> hmmm, this sounds a lot like copy all of the information over by hand ...
>
> how about writing a shell script to add the user to the unix side and 
> then copy the associated information (including the new group) into 
> fedora directory?  is there some way to create an ldif file 
> programatically and then use ldapadd?  has anyone done this already?
> steve
>
> Pete Rowley wrote:
>> Steve Strong wrote:
>>> OK, I'm a newbie, but it seems that now that I've migrated all of my 
>>> users that I need to learn how to add users (ya think?)  There must 
>>> be an underlying unix account, right?  how do you add one unix 
>>> account to the fedora ldap directory?
>>>
>> In the console create a new user, once you have filled out the 
>> default tab, click on the posix tab.
>>
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