Re: iPlanet ldif

[John Borwick <borwicjh@wfu.edu>]

Julian Brown wrote:
> I need to convert from an antique iPlanet LDAP (4.1) running on Windows 
> to OpenLDAP.  Sun wants to charge us a fortune to convert to their 
> latest and greatest.
>
> I am not an expert on LDAP all we use it for is for our perl cgi scripts 
> to verify passwords.   We have the default schema with our own 
> o=mydomain.com (with our domain here), all of our users are in that o=.
>
> I can get the iPlanet LDAP server to generate an LDIF, now here is the 
> clincher will the OpenLDAP server be able to read in that LDIF file and 
> populate our user database.   Again we have no schema, just what came 
> with it.

We did have to modify our iPlanet directory to make it work with 
OpenLDAP.  The script we wrote is available at 
<http://www.wfu.edu/~borwicjh/software/iplanet-to-openldap.pl>.  You'll 
have to modify the code, but it may help get you started.

Yours,
John
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           John Borwick
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