[Freeipa-users] migrating from OpenLDAP to freeIPA

cbulist at gmail.com cbulist at gmail.com
Thu May 1 20:34:37 UTC 2014


Hi Rob,

Thanks so much for your help!.
Our openLDAP uses memberuid attribute because we migrated the original
database from NIS server.
Your tip worked great. Just let me correct a typo error:

--group-objectclass="posixgroup"


Thanks again,

cbu



On 05/01/2014 11:58 AM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> cbulist at gmail.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to migrate my database from OpenLDAP to freeIPA
>> (ipa-server-3.0.0-37.el6.x86_64) but I get an error when freeIPA starts
>> to import the group (all the users were imported without problem).
>> This is the command that I am using for import:
>>
>> ipa migrate-ds --with-compat --user-container="ou=People,dc=sample,dc=com" --group-container="ou=Group,dc=sample,dc=com" --bind-dn="cn=Manager,dc=sample,dc=com"  ldap://openldap.sample.com
>>
>> ipa: ERROR: group LDAP search did not return any result (search base:
>> ou=Group,dc=sample,dc=com, objectclass: groupofuniquenames, groupofnames)
>>
>>
>>
>> This is how looks a group in openldap database:
>>
>> dn: cn=ftp,ou=Group,dc=sample,dc=com
>> objectClass: posixGroup
>> objectClass: top
>> cn: ftp
>> userPassword: {crypt}x
>> gidNumber: 50
>>
>> I tried migrate it without compat support and I got the same error.
>> Any clue about this problem? Thanks in advance!...
> We look for RFC2307(bis) groups with an objectclass of either 
> groupOfUniqueNames or groupOfNames. How does your group have any members 
> without one of these?
>
> You should be able to pull these in with --groupobjectclass=posixgroup
>
> rob




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