LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.15 Administrator's Guide

2.6 Import Name Service Data into Your Directory
The next step is to import your name service data into your LDAP Directory. Here are some
considerations when planning this:
• If you have already imported data into your directory with the NIS/LDAP Gateway product,
LDAP-UX Client Services can use that data and you can skip to Configure the LDAP-UX
Client Services (page 31).
• If you are using NIS, the migration scripts take your NIS maps and generate LDIF files.
These scripts can then import the LDIF files into your directory, creating new entries in the
directory. This only works if you are starting with an empty directory or creating an entirely
new subtree in your directory for your data.
If you are not using NIS, the migration scripts can take your user, group, and other data
from files, generate LDIF, and import the LDIF into your directory.
• If you integrate the name service data into your directory, the migration scripts may be
helpful depending on where you put the data in your directory. You could use them just to
generate LDIF, edit the LDIF, then import the LDIF into your directory. For example, you
could manually add the posixAccount object class to your existing entries under ou=People
and add their HP-UX information there.
2.6.1 Steps to Importing Name Service Data into Your Directory
Here are the steps for importing your user and group data into your LDAP directory. Modify
them as needed.
1. Decide which migration method and scripts you will use. Migration scripts are provided to
ease the task of importing your existing name service data into your LDAP directory.
See Name Service Migration Scripts (page 230) for a complete description of the scripts, what
they do, and how to use them. Modify the migration scripts, if needed.
2. Back up your directory.
3. Run the migration scripts, using the worksheet in Configuration Worksheet (page 243).
4. If the method you used above did not already do so, import the LDIF file into your directory.
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