RE: LDAP reading a Unix Passwd file???

["Buttrick, David" <david.buttrick@wilcom.com>]

One of the slapd backends is called passwd, that is, it points at the
/etc/passwd file and uses that as its user database.

You'll have to check the docuemntation for more info, but it is there.

Good luck, let me know how it goes.

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Donovan [mailto:jdonovan@beth.k12.pa.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 8:07 AM
> To: openldap-general
> Subject: 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
>