heres a hack that reads /etc/passwd....you will of course want to
configure this to build the ldif file to your specs....this script works
on a linux box....you should probably be able to fig whats going on by
looking at the script...
-ray
John Kennedy wrote:
>
> Jeff,
> I'm sure a perl script could do this quite well for you. Unfortunately I
> don't know perl well enough to do but there must be someone on the list
> who knows it well enough...
> John
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> On 7/12/00, 8:07:17 AM, Jeff Donovan <jdonovan@beth.k12.pa.us> wrote
> regarding 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
> > --
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Jeff Donovan Network Analyst
> > Bethlehem Area School District The Bethlehem Education Network (BEN)
> > Bethlehem, PA 18017 (610) 807-5557 jdonovan@beth.k12.pa.us
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