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1. Directory Server LDAP/LDIF import - working yet not working???

We currently have NIS and are looking to get rid of NIS completely in
favor of LDAP.  We don't want N2L; we want NIS to go away completely.

I installed DS 5.2 (or whichever version is on Sun's web site) on a test
server. I then generated LDIF files from the /etc files on our NIS
master using the migrate_passwd.pl tool from padl.com (after modifying
their common source with the correct domain information, of course).

Since ou=People already existed for our domain after the install, I
transferred the LDIF file to the console and performed a successful
import - or what *appeared* to be a successful import.

It imported all of the users without any rejected records.  When I
select the People subsuffix for our domain in the console under the
Directory tab, I do indeed see all of the users from the import in the
frame on the right.  If I double-click on any user, their Posix
information is there.  So, it did import the data.

But there are a few things that are very disturbing.

1.  Each of the imported users has a blue dot icon.  In the example data
(cn=example,cn=com), each user has a small person icon next to them.
This tells me that the system didn't really accept the imported data as
users.

2.  None of the entries can be searched.  Even when I do an advanced
search, the DN matches the base, but even when I specify "uid contains
{specific user ID}" it never comes up with any results.

3.  When I double-click on any user, it brings up the Generic Editor
whereas when I double-click on one of the example users I get the much
easier-to-read Edit User window.

So, it's like the data is there but yet not recognied as "People".

Sadly, I have to confess that I was thrust into our current situation
due to the I.T. hell that we all know as Sarbanes-Oxley with only a
10,000-foot understanding of LDAP.  Thanks to SOX this is a critical
project that must be configured, tested, and deployed by year's end.
Fortunately, we're not doing anything more at this point than get user
authentication to LDAP.  We'll leave the fancier things for later on
where there are no pressure and time constraints.

Unfortunately, most of Sun's documentation seems to make the somewhat
arrogant assumption that all NIS -> LDAP transitions are going to always
involve keeping NIS compatibility mode via N2L.  That's not the case
here.  This is to be nothing more than importing /etc/passwd (and
shadow) and /etc/group information into LDAP followed by the elimination
of NIS.

As for why we're going to use DS 5.2 instead of what's built into
Solaris, we prefer to have a three-way multi-master configuration with
two in our home office (for redundancy) and one in a remote office so
that users in that office don't have to hit the WAN.  Unfortunately, the
DS that's included with Solaris only offers two-way multi-mastering.

I already downloaded the various LDAP BluePrints and Directory Server
manuals, but I could not find anything to resolve this.  I'm not saying
that the information is not there; I'm just saying that I couldn't find
it, but I'll keep looking anyway.

Any assistance will be immensely appreciated.

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