NIS+ to LDAP Migration Guide

Migrating NIS+ to LDAP
Importing Your NIS+ Data to Your LDAP Directory Server
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Importing Your NIS+ Data to Your LDAP
Directory Server
This section describes the steps you take to import your NIS+ data to
your LDAP directory. How you do this depends on several factors. Here
are some considerations when planning this:
• The migration scripts take your NIS+ data and generate LDIF files.
These scripts can then import the LDIF files into your directory,
creating new entries in the directory. You can start with an empty
directory, create an entirely new subtree in your directory or import
your NIS+ data into the existing directory.
• Your directory architect needs to decide where in your directory to
place your NIS+ information. Here are some possibilities:
— Create a separate subtree for NIS+ data - The migration scripts
can import all your NIS+ data into the separate subtree.
To migrate the subdomain data, create a subtree under the
parent domain. For converting the replica server to the LDAP
replica server, the root master server’s data needs to be migrated
to the LDAP directory. The replica server’s data does not need to
be migrated to the LDAP directory, as it may be outdated.
— Integrate the NIS+ information into your directory - The
migration scripts may be helpful depending on where you put the
NIS+ data in your directory. You could use them just to generate
LDIF, edit the LDIF, then use the ldapmodify tool to import the
LDIF into your directory.
• You should migrate NIS+ service data one domain at a time. Migrate
NIS+ data starting from bottom domains to the top domains.