On 14 Aug 2001 08:03:31 -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi all, > I have a Novell server with 6000 accounts and more than 100 Win98 > clients. > I want to migrate to Linux all the machines at phases. > At first, I will start with 15 clients and 1 Linux server. > The other 85 clients will remain Win98 accessing Novell server. > I plan to make Linux mount Novell volumes and Linux clients access > them by NFS and NIS. > My question is how to migrate these 6000 accounts to Linux NIS? > Is there a free tool for this? And a paid tool? > Thanks in advance, Paulo Henrique >
Is there an equivalent /etc/passwd file for novell or is it kept in some wacky database (forgive my novel ignorance). If you can burn out a flat file of the users and passwords etc you should be able to hack out awk script to set variables for then running adduser one by one relatively painlessly. --mike
