Re: Account Migration from Novell to Linux
Em 15 Aug 2001 11:47:46 -0500, Michael Heldebrant
<hmike@portalofevil.com> escreveu:
> 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.
Hi,
this is I dont know. It it's just passwd I know that is simple but I
dont have Novell knowledge for this.
Anyone?
TIA, Paulo Henrique
>
> --mike
>
>
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