Hi, > My friends company has been planning to migrate to linux completely. They > have around 800 employees. They are using Microsoft AD for authentication. > As we know AD is costly and closed. I preferred him to use OpenDs. Now we > have a problem in migration those used. We planned to export schemas in LDIF > and tried to import to Opends. But i am not sure that we can achieve > completely using the above method.
I'm not aware of any readily available tools. But if you are good at Perl/Python, you can write a program to pull necessary information from your windows box using the ADSI library (available for Perl and Python on windows) and then populate your LDAP server by correctly mapping the elements. I remember doing this a couple of years ago (from AD on Windows 2000 server to OpenLDAP). Also, some manual tasks were involved related to migrating schema from windows 2000 to OpenLDAP on Linux platform. The point is - it is do-able, although not in a straight-forward way. Search for Perl ADSI or Python Windows ADSI for more information. Cheers, Chandrashekar. -- Chandrashekar Babu., http://www.chandrashekar.info/ http://www.slashprog.com/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
