Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Importing Users

Jared B. Griffith
Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:39:51 -0000

Thanks again, that is going to work for us perfectly.



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From: "Richard Megginson" <rmeggins@redhat.com>
To: "Jared B. Griffith" <jared.griffith@farheap.com>,
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Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 6:03:54 AM (GMT-0800) America/Los_Angeles
Subject: Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Importing Users

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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- Thank you,
- Jared B. Griffith
- Farheap Solutions, Inc.
- Lead Systems Administrator
- California IT Department
- Email - jared.griffith@farheap.com
- Phone - 949.417.1500 ext. 266
- Cell Phone - 949.910.6542