Re: LDAP reading a Unix Passwd file???

[John Kennedy <jkennedy@orent.com>]

Jeff,
I'm sure a perl script could do this quite well for you.  Unfortunately I 
don't know perl well enough to do but there must be someone on the list 
who knows it well enough...
John

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On 7/12/00, 8:07:17 AM, Jeff Donovan <jdonovan@beth.k12.pa.us> wrote 
regarding LDAP reading a Unix Passwd file???:


> 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