På Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:40:02 +0200, skrev nigel barker
<tech@hiroshima-is.ac.jp>:
I would like to know the solution when you find it. When you are
successful, would you mind writing a howto for transferring users
from a skolelinux 2 tjener to a new skolelinux 3 tjener?
thanks!
nigel
Don't know if you have some machine to test on, but here is what I
have done so far. You should only use this for testing purposes.
This is not necessarily the right way, and may cause errors for what
I know, but this worked fine for me:
Backup the old ldap:
# mkdir /var/backups/ldif
# /etc/init.d/slapd stop
# /etc/init.d/nscd stop
# /usr/sbin/slapcat -l /var/backups/ldif/ldifbackup.ldif
# /etc/init.d/slapd start
# /etc/init.d/nscd start
You shold now have a ldif backup in /var/backups/ldif/ Copy this to
some removeable storage device. Then bring the ldif file to your
newly installed server. The rest is done after installing DebianEdu 3.0.
Since I had done some testing with ldap, I moved away everything in
ldap with:
# rm -rf /var/lib/ldap/*
Then got a fresh and clean ldap:
# ldap-debian-edu-install
When I tried to add my ldif file, the users would not become members
of groups already excisting, e.g. groups teachers and students.
Since, as far as I know, you can not use lwat to add several users to
a group at once, this would be quite timeconsuming. A workaround was
to restart slapd and nscd, then use lwat to remove the groups
teachers, students and machines, and then stop slapd and nscd again.
I guess you could do this from commandline as well. This step should
not be necessary, but maybe my ldif file is not corresponding to good
with my new ldap.
Then I added my ldif file using slapadd:
# slapadd -v -c -l ldifbackup.ldif -f /etc/ldap/slapd.conf
Then i did restart slapd and nscd.
# getent passwd
returns all my users
# getent group |grep teach
returns all the teachers in school correctly.
Windows (samba) machines works mostly still, but there seems to be
some issues. Sometimes they can't get in touch with ldapserver. I
have not investigated this any further.
Good luck
Bjarne Nielsen