On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 06:55:17PM -0500, Todd D. Taft wrote: > Thanks to a reorganization, I have to move about 50 Linux systems > from the LDAP server run by one group to the LDAP server run by a > different group. In most cases, the UIDs (uidNumber) and GIDs > (gidNumber) for a given user or group don't match between the > systems. Since most files are accessed via local filesystems or > NFS, I think I will need to renumber the ownership of all of the > files on these systems. Are there any tools/utilities available (or > hints from people who have done similar projects) that make this > process less painful and go faster?
Presumably you could create a mapping of old_uid to new_uid and then write scripts to search out all the old and change to new...... Not aware of any toolkits that make this easier. Do you have the option of preserving the UID/GID's and updating them to match in the new LDAP directory? Ray _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
