Re: Account Migration from Novell to Linux
On 14 Aug 2001 08:03:31 -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I have a Novell server with 6000 accounts and more than 100 Win98
> clients.
> I want to migrate to Linux all the machines at phases.
> At first, I will start with 15 clients and 1 Linux server.
> The other 85 clients will remain Win98 accessing Novell server.
> I plan to make Linux mount Novell volumes and Linux clients access
> them by NFS and NIS.
> My question is how to migrate these 6000 accounts to Linux NIS?
> Is there a free tool for this? And a paid tool?
> Thanks in advance, Paulo Henrique
>
Is there an equivalent /etc/passwd file for novell or is it kept in some
wacky database (forgive my novel ignorance). If you can burn out a flat
file of the users and passwords etc you should be able to hack out awk
script to set variables for then running adduser one by one relatively
painlessly.
--mike
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