Dean I have looked at this as well. Here is the netware info I have dug up.
Netware 5.1 SP5 with NDS but no e-directory. e-directory supposedly makes it easier to interface with ldap, although since I am not running it I can't confirm that. First of all it is not possible according to Novell to be able to pull passwords from NDS. The have specifically made that intentionally difficult. I would believe it is possible to write a script to check to see if the password you know is correct, but you would have to start with a password first. So if you created a script that prompted the user for a password you could conceivably use NDS to authenticate and upon successful authentication use the entered password to update samba. Obviously this would require the participation of the user base, so I don't see it as a viable solution. I only have 50 users so I won't be testing this theory :) In any case here are two url's that might help an admin with such a project. http://developer.novell.com/research/devnotes/2000/june/03/dpv.htm http://developer.novell.com/research/devnotes/1999/november/01/dpv.htm Second the following URL is more useful, although the way Novell created it there is no direct link to the information you want, so you have to navigate to it. http://www.novell.com/documentation/nw5/docui/index.html >From that link you need to select "Directory Services" and then "LDAP Configuration". Following the information contained there I was able to configure NDS via Console One to allow plain text authentication. While I would only do this in a controlled environment, it is then possible to connect to the NDS server via openldap's ldapsearch and retrieve user information. Within the LDAP configuration in ConsoleOne you can map NDS attributes to LDAP attributes. In this way you could create an LDAP search to pull most of what you need from NDS to populate your LDAP user tree. Again you can't pull passwords, but you could pull enough information to make ldif records and thus keep yourself from having to hand-key user information. Hope this helps Matt Pusateri On 6/6/05, Dean Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to migrate a Netware 5.0 serve to Samba and LDAP. I'm > wondering how I might export the usernames, passwords, and perhaps > group memberships to the destination LDAP. If I can get the data into > LDIF form, I'm okay from there. Does anyone know how the passwords in > Netware 5.0 are encrypted? I hope to bring them over, but reseting the > passwords is not out of the question (just inconvenient). > > Thanks, > > Dean > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
