Re: How to migrate MS - Active Directory to Linux OpenLDAP

["Gustavo Rios" <rios.gustavo@gmail.com>]

Do you plan to open source it? I mean your scripts!

On 10/4/06, Atom Powers <apowers@digipen.edu> wrote:
> Raghu Ni wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are trying into migrate from Active Directory to Open LDAP. But, we
> > getting problems with Schema Attributes. Can any one help us in this ?
> >
>
> I haven't worked with AD in a number of years, but I did do a
> large-scale migration to OpenLDAP this summer.
>
> You have esentially two choices.
> 1. Write a schema that supports the AD attributes in OpenLDAP.
> 2. Write a script that converts the AD attributes to those used in the
> standard OpenLDAP schemas. This is the route I took and my script ended
> up being many hundreds of lines (in perl) and requires extensive
> testing, as even the smallest mistake can prevent the data from getting
> loaded.
>
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