On 08/08/2010 12:44 AM, Michael Wood wrote:
On 7 August 2010 19:11, Nico Kadel-Garcia<nka...@gmail.com>  wrote:
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Dave Thurston<dthurs...@comcast.net>  wrote:
I have searched but I have yet to find a method to import users and passwords 
from
a samba3/ldap system to samba4. Is there available a method of doing this?

Why do you need to import? Isn't the backend Kerberos and the account
informat sufficiently similar that you can simply switch over?

(I ask as someone using Samba 3, eyeing Samba 4 with interest to get
LDAP out of the hands of Active Directory.)

By default Samba 4 uses its own built in LDAP server and the OpenLDAP
backend is currently not working properly.

I have managed to migrate users from an Apple Open Directory server
(which is based on MIT Kerberos and OpenLDAP) to Samba 4, but I was
only using Open Directory for authentication of one service.  No
machines joined to OD or anything like that.

All I needed to do was dump the kerberos database, import it to
Heimdal, dump it from Heimdal again and then use the password hashes
from the Heimdal dump to create the necessary unicodePwd attributes in
Samba's directory.  After that I used ldapsearch to get hold of the
groups each user was a member of and then used ldbmodify (or perhaps
ldapmodify.  I can't remember now) to migrate them to Samba.

I've never used Samba 3 as a PDC, so I'm not sure what the LDAP schema
looks like and how it differs from what Samba 4 uses, but as long as
the password hashes are in a compatible format, I imagine it's just a
matter of slapcat or ldapsearch, munging the results and then
ldbmodify to add the users to Samba 4.

I don't know of an existing script to do this.

I have started writing a script that will pull account information (Users, Groups and Computers) from s3's ldap backend and import it to s4. its still early days though. I'm pretty sure that there will be loads of hurdles to jump before is in any usable state

Regards

Luk
Cc: samba-technical


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