Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Importing Users

Richard Megginson
Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:03:54 -0000

Jared B. Griffith wrote:
> Has anyone else experienced a very long time when importing a ldif
> file with a size of about 42 Mb?  It is currently taking me about 2
> hours to import the users using the Console.
That might be doing an LDAP Add instead of a database
import.
> Would it be faster using the command line tool?
Sure.  Use ldif2db.
> I am at a loss as how to run it from the command line as it is
> requesting a back end instance, and I am not exactly sure what it is
> looking for.
You can specify either the name of the backend (userRoot by default) or
the suffix e.g. -s "dc=example, dc=com"
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/ag/7.1/dbmanage.html#1117378
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