Re: problems with exporting/iimporting passwords

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

thom_schu@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi everybody, we are installing a new ldap-server, because we need a
> new structure. so a simple export/import via slapcat/slapadd is not
> possible, because we need to change the object structure. I wrote a
> bash shell-script (we are working under suse), which exports the user
> datas via ldapsearch, builds the new objects and saves it in
> ldif-format. then I import the ldif-file via ldap-add in the new
> ldap-server.
>
> but when I want to import the ldif-file, ldapadd complains about 50
> users (from 900 total), that they woud have an invalid format -  the
> lines, which are invalid are always the userPassword-lines of this
> user.
>
> I tried already to extract this lines with slapcat, copied the
> extracted lines into my ldif-file, but still the same error.
>
> Is there any other way to export/import the password ? can it be a
> char-set problem ? I really dont know anymore, what else I could
> do.....

I guess your script does something wrong but it's hard to guess from the 
sparse information you gave. BTW: Do you fully understand the LDIF 
syntax, especially lines with userPassword:: ?
                                          ^^

Ciao, Michael.