Migrating from Apple OpenDirectory?

Michael Wood esiotrot at gmail.com
Thu Apr 15 08:52:23 MDT 2010


Forgot to send this to the list:

Thanks again for your helpful reply.

On 14 April 2010 14:28, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 13:50 +0200, Michael Wood wrote:
[...]
>> I see the Heimdal documentation mentions dumping the MIT Kerberos
>> database using kdb5_util dump -b7 and then importing it using hprop
>> and hpropd:
>> http://www.h5l.org/manual/heimdal-1-3-branch/info/heimdal/Migration.html#Migration
>>
>> Am I heading in the right direction? :)
>
> Yes.
>
>> If so, what documentation do I need to look at for using the results
>> of the above with Samba 4?
>
> We would need to construct a custom tool, but once it's in the heimdal
> format db, it's much, much easier.

I'm sure you guys have way too much to do already, so how long do you
think it might take to make such a tool?

[...]
> The easiest option would be if they have a tool that migrates out into
> smbpasswd format.  We still don't have great import tools, but at least
> those are only a matter of programming.

Unfortunately I haven't found anything like that.

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>


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