importing NIS to eDirectory

[aladen]

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