[Fedora-directory-users] Migrating Netscape DS to FDS

[Michael Ströder]

Dave wrote:
> With respect to exporting/import an LDIF file, yes there are about 20
> custom fields in the schema for varying types of data such as user
> preferences.    This is one reason I was trying to avoid an
> import/export of LDIF as it would require some cleansing.   The
> challenge of doing the step-upgrade now appears to be in finding version
> 6 iPlanet Directory Server to download somewhere...   By the way, f
> anyone is willing to take a crack at this I'd be more than happy to
> compensate...  I have a Red Hat test server set up with fedora-ds
> installed and an LDIF file containing a dump of the Netscape DS 4.1 server.

Still I'd recommend to directly migrate to FDS by bulk-importing the
LDIF. If that does not work you can come to the mailing list for asking
why it fails.

Ciao, Michael.