Hello David,

Make sure all those users are already created before the import or use 
“default”.

Thanks,

Ludovic Zammit
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> On Feb 26, 2021, at 12:31 PM, David Harvey via PacketFence-users 
> <packetfence-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
> Experimenting on the same topic I have also found inconsistent behaviour with 
> "./pfcmd import nodes /tmp/testimport.csv columns=mac,pid,category"
> 
> 00:54:E8:61:32:00,auser,developer
> 00:F0:5D:18:93:00,anotheruser,developer
> 00:9a:4c:51:b7:00,andanotherone,developer
> 00:d8:00:e8:a5:00,opsuser,ops
> 
> It seems to only set the role (category) every second run if they're all the 
> same role, on alternate runs it unsets role altogether for the nodes. If I 
> attempt a mix of roles is seems to set one role type and unsets the other!
> I hope that I can avoid setting the role here altogether given my initial 
> query on using the existing source and mechanisms, but thought it worth 
> mentioning.
> 
> pf 10.2.0 On Debian 9.13
> Thanks,
> David
> 
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 2:59 PM David Harvey <da...@thoughtmachine.net 
> <mailto:da...@thoughtmachine.net>> wrote:
> Dear Packetfence users,
> 
> I'm looking for advice on updating my node owners whilst preserving or 
> recalculating roles.
> With many new users working from home, their nodes have been registered as a 
> default owner, with the role being manually set. Although I have a configured 
> LDAP source which applies roles correctly to portal users, the users haven't 
> been present to login through the portal.
> 
> I'm looking to update the ownership with asset data that maps MAC to user 
> using /pfcmd import nodes, but to do so requires the roles to be available on 
> the csv file, or otherwise to set a default value.
> 
> Is there a way to recalculate the role for a node from its owner information 
> using an existing LDAP  authentication source? Sadly I don't think I can use 
> "dot1x recompute role from portal" as my  my certs are machine certs and 
> don't have the owner/pid present. I"ve been struggling to find info on the 
> "MAC auth computer role from portal" option.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> David
> 
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