Re: [SAGE] LDAP Migration Question

[Cat Okita <cat@reptiles.org>]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Chris St. Pierre wrote:
> 2.  Choose a server to be the first guinea pig.  Slowly, painfully,
>    one at a time, change over all of the UIDs and GIDs to align with
>    your master.  When you're done, switch that machine to LDAP auth.
>
> 3.  Repeat, ad nauseam.
>
> There is no profit.  I just hope, for the sake of your sanity, that
> you don't have too many machines to deal with.
>
> The good news is that you can probably write a quick script to help
> you with the second step.  Something like:

I should probably inject still more pain here - if you happen to have
a mixed environment, the system accounts have different uids/gids on
different unixes ... so changing things without checking first can be
very, very, -very- interesting.

cheeers!
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