Populating the Directory with User Aliases Data and Distribution Lists --Sample Session

The following example is a continuation from the user data population example shown in "Populating the Directory with User Data--Sample Session" on page 319. It also assumes that you have extracted the user mail-aliases information from NIS+ and are now attempting to populate the directory with user aliases data for Alpha Corporation, Inc. as shown below. The user mail-alias being created is called testsubject and it will have two people as its members, John Doe and Gail Evert. The owner of the alias is designated as admin. The distribution list mail-alias is called testsubject-list, and it has owner owner-testsubject-list and automated request alias testsubject-list-request. The owner is user jdoe and the distribution list has two members, gevert and jdoe.

testsubject: gevert,jdoe   owner-testsubject: admin   testsubject-list: jdoe,gevert   testsubject-list-request: jdoe   owner-testsubject-list: jdoe

To create directory entries for these user aliases, complete the following steps:

$ su

Password: <Enter your root password>

#

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Note - Since you have to populate the directory with user data before you populate it with user aliases data, and since the process of extracting user, user aliases, and distribution list data is the same, you have already completed steps Step 3 to Step 5 as part of Populating the Directory with User Data--Sample Session." This section does not repeat these steps.

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# cp imldifsync.conf groups.conf

3.

Edit the groups.conf file, change the add-val line as shown below and change the mode token from users to groups.

add-val = { "associatedDomain: <same value as mail-domain> }   mode = groups

mail-domain value should be lower down in the same file.

4.

Change directories to the location shown and convert the user aliases list data to LDIF format.

Use the imldifsync command to generate formatted user aliases data files (LDIF files).

# /opt/SUNWmail/sbin/imldifsync -c groups.conf > /tmp/user_aliases.ldif

You will see the following results on the screen:

==================Statistics========================   Added DNs: 2   Modified DNs: 0   Delete DNs: 0   ====================================================

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Note - By default, the mail folder will be set to the Sun Message Store.

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The file user_aliases.ldif contains the following:

CODE  EXAMPLE  10-1 Contents of the user_aliases.ldif File for User Aliases (1 of 2)

dn: cn="testsubject",ou=Groups,o=Alpha,c=US

changetype: add

cn: testsubject

rfc822MailMember: gevert@testserver.Alpha.COM

rfc822MailMember: jdoe@testserver.Alpha.COM

mailDeliveryOption: mailbox

rfc822Owner: admin@testserver.Alpha.COM

rfc822Owner: root@testserver.Alpha.COM

ownerDeliveryOption: mailbox

dataSource: imldifsync 1.0

objectClass: top

objectClass: rfc822MailGroup

objectClass: emailGroup objectClass: groupOfNames associateddoman: <the value you added to the .conf file>   -

dn: cn="testsubject-list",ou=Groups,o=Alpha,c=US

changetype: add

cn: testsubject-list

rfc822MailMember: jdoe@testserver.Alpha.COM

rfc822MailMember: gevert@testserver.Alpha.COM

mailDeliveryOption: mailbox

rfc822Owner: jdoe@testserver.Alpha.COM

rfc822Owner: root@testserver.Alpha.COM

ownerDeliveryOption: mailbox

rfc822RequestsTo: jdoe@testserver.Alpha.COM

requestsToDeliveryOption: mailbox

dataSource: imldifsync 1.0

objectClass: top

objectClass: rfc822MailGroup

objectClass: emailGroup

# cd /opt/SUNWconn/bin

# ldapmodify -D "cn=admin,o=Alpha,c=us" -w secret -f /tmp/user_aliases.ldif

You will see the following results on the screen:

adding new entry cn="testsubject",ou=Groups,o=Alpha,c=US   adding new entry cn="testsubject-list",ou=Groups,o=Alpha,c=US

CODE  EXAMPLE  C-3 Results of the ldapsearch Command for User Aliases Data

6.

Verify that the entries are present in the directory, using the ldapsearch command.

# ldapsearch -L -b "o=Alpha,c=us" "cn=*" cn

dn: CN=testsubject,OU=Groups,O=Alpha,C=US

cn: testsubject

# ldapsearch -L -b "o=Alpha,c=us" "cn=*" cn

dn: CN=testsubject-list,OU=Groups,O=Alpha,C=US

cn: testsubject-list