Migrating users from passwd/shadow file to LDAP

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I want to migrate my company’s old openSUSE server to Nethserver for email services. In openSUSE, there are about 200 user accounts. Is there a quick way to create user accounts and migrate the password from password/shadow files to LDAP (used in Nethserver)?

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I think it’s possible.

The existing command of ns7 can create the accounts and set plain text password

https://docs.nethserver.org/en/v7/accounts.html#import-and-delete-accounts-from-plain-text-files

However, if you want to preserve the original passwords you need an additional shell script.

For each user it has to copy the encrypted password field of /etc/shadow in the LDAP userPassword attribute. You can use the ldapmodify command, or (don’t know if it works but easier) lpasswd.

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Another Option would be PHPLDAPadmin, installed on both OpenSuSE and on NethServer 7 - using Stephdl’s Modul:

https://wiki.nethserver.org/doku.php?id=phpldapadmin

But also here: some intervention would be needed.
Advantage: It should be able to export the users with encrypted password.

My 2 cents
Andy

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Thanks for the Information