Importing Name Service Data into Your Directory

The next step is to import your user, group, and other services data into your Active Directory.

When planning to import your data, consider the following:

If you have already imported data into your Active directory with the SFU 2.0 Server for NIS migration tool, LDAP-UX Client Services can use that data and you can skip to “Configuring LDAP-UX Client Services”.
If you are using NIS, the LDAP-UX migration scripts take your NIS maps and generate LDIF files. These scripts can then import the LDIF files into your directory, creating new entries in the directory.
If you are not using NIS, the LDAP-UX migration scripts can take your user, group, and other data from files, generate LDIF, and import the LDIF into your directory to work with SFU version 2.0.

If you integrate the name service data into your directory, the migration scripts may be helpful depending on where you put the data in your directory. You could use them just to generate LDIF, edit the LDIF, then import the LDIF into your directory. For example, you could manually add the msSFUAccount attributes to your existing entries under CN=Users and add their HP-UX information there.




	CAUTION: LDAP-UX Client Services provides default attribute and search descriptor settings to work with Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX 3.0/3.5 (SFU 3.0/3.5) when working with the Windows 2000, 2003 or 2003 R2 Acitve Directory Server. If you use SFU 2.0 with Windows 2000 or 2003 ADS, you can manually re-link the attribute configuration file to SFU 2.0 before running migration. Use this command to switch to SFU 2.0: `ln -fs /etc/opt/ldapux/defualt_profile_attr_ads_sfu2.ldif \` `/etc/opt/ldapux/default_profile_attr_ads.ldif` If you use the R2's RFC2307 schema with Windows 2003 R2 ADS, you can manually re-link the attribute configuration file to R2's RFC2307 before running migration. Use this command to switch to R2's RFC2307: `ln -fs /etc/opt/ldapux/defualt_profile_attr_ads_winr2.ldif \` `/etc/opt/ldapux/default_profile_attr_ads.ldif` LDAP_UX Client Services will use SFU 3.0/3.5 in the absence of the softlink `/etc/opt/ldapux/default_profile_attr_ads.ldif`. You can also run the setup program to select and set the attribute map to be used with your directory server.

To import your user, group, and other services data into your LDAP directory, complete the following steps, modifying them as necessary.

Decide which migration method and scripts you will use.
Migration scripts are provided to ease the task of importing your existing name service data into your Active directory. Refer to “Command, Tool, Schema Extension Utility, and Migration Script Reference” for a complete description of the scripts, what they do, and how to use them. Modify the migration scripts, if needed.
Back up your directory.
Run the migration scripts.
If the method you used above did not already import your data, use ldapmodify to import the LDIF file into your directory.

Importing Name Service Data into Your Directory

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