good advise. i've got just two questions: 1. since it's just being used for authentication, could I just migrate passwd, shadow and group? 2. would the command be: slapadd < myfile.ldif? thanks a lot! steve Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 15:26 -0500, Steve Strong wrote: > >> OK, now this is getting better. the openldap server seems to function OK, >> but running the migration scripts results in a duplicate entry error while >> "migrate_all_offline.sh" is processing /etc/services. the duplicate entry >> is "echo" and when i looked at the file their are two entries, one for tcp >> and one for udp. >> >> shouldn't these migration scripts be able to hangke this? >> >> anyhow, when the script terminates in tells me where there is an .ldif >> file. does any one know how to use that file as an input to another app >> after i edit out all of the duplicate entries??? >> >> or is there a better way to get around this? >> > ---- > I always found it best to run the migrate scripts into files which I can > edit and then slapadd when I had them all done. > > -- Steve Strong Math and Computer Science Washington High School 2205 Forest Dr. SE Cedar Rapids, IA 52403 http://crwash.org mailto:strong at crwash.org