importing NIS to eDirectory

Been there done that:
http://ldapwiki.willeke.com/wiki/Mig...versalPassword

-jim

aladen wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am working on a project to convert our NIS based systems to an LDAP
> based authentication.
>
> I would like to use eDirectory as the base LDAP store. In some ways, I
> know its a bit of overkill, but I like the featureset and relaibility of
> eDir when compared to openldap.
>
> 2 Problems though.
>
> 1: Lack of decent documentation. Is there a really good resource for
> configuring and working with eDir? Most of the Novell documentation
> seems poorly organized and incomplete. I am not necessarily looking for
> eDirectory for Dummies (though it might not be a bad idea) but at least
> some documentation that goes over the basic functionality in a easy to
> understand manner with useful examples.
>
> 2: Is there any way to import a NIS based password file, including
> crypt'ed passwords into eDir? I am trying to avoid forcing the users to
> reset thier passwords when I do the cut over, but I cant find a way to
> have eDir use the crypt string as the password, even temporarily until
> the user changes their password.
> This would be the major reason I would look at openldap instead. It
> would make the conversion much more user friendly.
>
> Thanks
> -Andrew
>
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