[mkalien]

I’m glad you got it working. I haven’t tried it yet, but was going to today. Does anyone have any resources on what all is going on when you use the asr:// URL? If I run asr -source asr:// on 10 macs around the same time, I’m assuming they will all get the same multicast stream, but how do I know? What if I start one and then another 5 minutes later with the same asr:// URL?

[mkalien]

If I get more time I’ll show an example, but really if you download the Command Line Administration pdf from here, it gives some description and examples. I know it’s not the best, but it’s a start.

Basically, you create a header line that specifies the ascii characters for a couple different delimiters, then you can put the data in any order you like as long as your headerline field descriptions are in the same order as your data. I’m talking about the dsimportexport import file that you need to build. If you want to use headings in your excel spreadsheet, then simply ignore them in your script or use the dsimportexport field names for headings (i.e. dsAttrTypeStandard:RecordName, dsAttrTypeStandard:HomeDirectory, etc..)

[mkalien]

If you exported those users to a delimited text file you could have a shell/perl script read in the lines, create a dsimportexport/WGM import file, and then import that file with all 250 users.

If you’re not familiar with dsimportexport, don’t worry it’s not that well documented, but it is found in the Command Line pdf that’s included as part of the OS X Server documentation.

[mkalien]

I have yet to recover from a -14002 error. I ended up in this state from testing an import user script. Everytim the server crashed while dsimportexport was running the ldap database or something got messed up.

I have tried deleting /var/db/openldap/, /var/db/openldap/openldap-data, and even deleted /var/db/.AppleSetupDone. None of these were successful, but perhaps that’s because I had was hacking around a bit already.

I guess it’s another clean install for me. I’m getting good at headless server installs.

[mkalien]

As long as the password isn’t stored as clear text. That’s what’s been dictated to me. Is it possible to use ldif files and still have the password stored with some sort of encryption/hash?

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