On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 07:45:37PM -0800, nate wrote: | mdevin said: | > On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 18:49:40 -0800, nate wrote: | | > Thanks, it worked straight away. But you have scared me now. I want to | > migrate over other stuff too for host information, users passwords etc. | > Should I keep using the perl scripts in migrationtools and then slapadd | > to add the files they generate. Should I try to use ldapadd instead | > somehow? | | you can use slapadd to add the minimum(needed so you can authenticate) | then use ldapadd for the rest .. | | for my authentication i have a toplevel admin account, so in theory | i would only need to slapadd 2 entries to authenticate? I think.
To work around that chicken-vs-egg problem, specify an admin dn and
password in the slapd.conf file. Then you can bind, using any client
-- ldapadd, gq, web2ldap, (whatever) -- to manage the database.
-D
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