[K12OSN] Existing users and moving to LDAP

[Brian Chivers]

Burke Almquist wrote:
>>>> Is there any way to do that?
>>> I've got a set of boxes I want to switch to LDAP and have the same 
>>> obstacle
>>> ahead.  I wonder, I remember seeing the post that if you use my old
>>> information about setting up Webmin to manage LDAP it now works for 
>>> LDAP and
>>> samba.  I wonder if you use Webmin to export the current users out, 
>>> build the
>>> new server with LDAP, then use Webmin to import the users back in if 
>>> it would
>>> work?
>>
>> The smbldap-tools has a script to rip stuff from /etc/passwd etc into 
>> ldap, this might help.
> I must have missed that one!!!!
> 
> 
>>
>> Brian Chivers
>> Portsmouth College
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Can't remember what it's called but I do remember that there was a script to do this.

Might be worth having a look in the tar of the smbldap-tools & the samba/ldap howto.

Brian

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