Migrating data from NIS to LDAP
Data is migrated to the LDAP directory using the nistoldif command.
The nistoldif command can operate in two modes:
it can output LDIF data, or it can write the data directly to the
server. The nistoldif command will not add a
user or a group with a UID or GID that conflicts with one already
on the server.
Note: You may have to increase the size of
the partition containing the database that LDAP is using. By default,
this will be the /home directory. If not enough
space is allocated, and you are migrating data to the server, the nistoldif command will fail. In this case, increase
the size of the partition and rerun the nistoldif command.
If you are migrating data from the default NIS domain, the nistoldif command will use this data by default. If you wish to use a
NIS domain other than the default, you
should use the -y flag to specify a domain. Following is an example:
nistoldif -h server1.ibm.com -a cn=admin -p adminpwd -d cn=aixdata
This migrates NIS maps from the default
domain to the LDAP server server1.ibm.com under the
cn=aixdata DN. If no NIS
maps are present, it will fall back to the data in the /etc directory. The
-f flag changes the fallback directory.
For more information, see the nistoldif command description in Commands Reference.