Re: LDAP reading a Unix Passwd file???

[Scott Liebergen <slieberg@globalcrossing.com>]

I "think" there are scripts at the padl site www.padl.com to do this for
you. Look under tools.


Scott




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

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