[Freeipa-users] ipa migrate-ds failing when more than 1 namingcontext is available

[Sigbjorn Lie]

On Fri, January 27, 2012 15:37, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 15:11 +0100, Sigbjorn Lie wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>>
>>> The first naming context returned from the LDAP server is always chosen
>>> when using migrate-ds. This makes my import fail when I attempt to import users and groups from
>>> a previous LDAP server having more than 1 naming contexts available.
>>>
>>> The migrate-ds script should accept an option to specify what base_dn I
>>> would like to import from.
>>>
>>> Is there such an option today? I cannot find it...
>>>
>
> Not currently. I noticed this earlier in the week and opened a ticket on
> it, https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2314
>
>>
>> Just to add to this request, if the original LDAP server has a
>> defaultNamingContext attribute, it should be honored for auto-detecting which base to migrate.
>
> I'll update the 2314 to ensure we don't forget about this. 389-ds just
> added support for defaultNamingContext.
>

Ok, thank you.

Anything I can do to work around this issue today? I suppose there is just a file that need to be
hacked to set a set a value instead of the auto-detected value... ?