LDAP reading a Unix Passwd file???

[Jeff Donovan <jdonovan@beth.k12.pa.us>]

Greetings,
I've been sitting on my LDAP for the last year with out any real use 
for it until now.

I am creating a directory for students and faculty, yet I want to 
gather the information from a Unix password file.
Does anyone have any experience with this?

eg,..
instead of typing up my ldif file and converting to an ldbm,..I would 
like to either gather the info from the password file into ldif 
format, or have OpenLDAP point to the file ( somehow ) and maybe read 
from it. Is this even possible?

TIA

--jeff
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Jeff Donovan                    Network Analyst
Bethlehem Area School District  The Bethlehem Education Network (BEN)
Bethlehem, PA  18017            (610) 807-5557  jdonovan@beth.k12.pa.us