Re: LDAP to /etc/passwd

[Gerald Carter <jerry@samba.org>]

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Kristyan Osborne wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have an LDAP server which has user accounts in it. I want to make a
> new server but I dont want it to talk to the LDAP sever for user
> accounts (at the mo). Has anyone got or knows of a script or program
> which will take account info from LDAP and make it into an /etc/passwd
> file.

if you are using nss_ldap on a system, kust run 

	getent passwd > passwd.new



cheers, jerry
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