Archive for the 'Wageslave' Category

Importing from LDAP Containers/groups into OpenDirectory

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

A Call for help:

It’s possible to add users from directory structure 1 (in this case an openLDAP implementation that’s sharing our University’s Novell eDirectory) into an OpenDirectory group (directory structure 2). I can do this on server 10.4 easily using the Workgroup Manager GUI. But doing it for hundreds of students every year is… well, I don’t have the time to do that, either in terms of deadlines or workload, quite frankly.

The information contains users grouped both by groups and containers, but it’s an old gripe that Workgroup Manager won’t show you anything but a flat list of users. There’s a group tab there, but it doesn’t seem to work for me. Also, I don’t have direct access to edit the data or create groups on 1, and the users are already correctly organised by container.

So, can anyone out there tell me if it’s possible? I don’t mind getting my hands dirty on the command line, and if Leopard is needed I had to order it this week anyway…

Why I dream of quitting IT

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Applescript - checking for prohibited programs

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Getting Things Done

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

ARD Update DNS Script

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Updating DNS names in Apple Remote Desktop

Monday, March 12th, 2007

Cardiff University BitTorrent Banlist Update

Friday, March 9th, 2007

Boot Camp and Parallels Playtime

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Cardiff Uni Blocks Torrents sites

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Persistant mounts on OSX

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007