Export Zimbra users to external ldap

[jncolin]

Hi

I'm currently running ZCS 4.5.10, quite happily I must say
For various reasons, i would like to export all my user data from Zimbra's openldap (only the users, not the aliases) to another openldap server.

I'm not willing to setup replica for Zimbra's openldap, but simply export what's below ou=people, and reload it into my other openldap server.

What would be needed to achieve that? I tried exporting the content using slapcat but it seems Zimbra is using specific object classes to represent users.

Thanks for your help

Jean-Noel Colin

[chipmunk]

you'll have to add the schemas from the zimbra openldap in your personnal LDAP
and then you need to export the datas with slapcat and import them inside the other.
The schemas are in <zimbra>/openldap/etc/openldap/schemas
Don't forget to add the loading of these schemas in your external ldap server

[jncolin]

thanks for the tip; but what I would like is to recreate my users as standard inetorgpersons, and, most importantly not loose the password information. Unfortunately, in the information exported by slapcat, the users do not appear as inetorgpersons

[zen]

I would suggest writing simple parser for ldif file. Python + ldap module will do just fine. Something like:

class zimbraParser(ldif.LDIFParser):
	def __init__(self,input_file,ignored_attr_types=None,max_entries=0,process_url_schemes=None,line_sep='\n' ):
		ldif.LDIFParser.__init__(self,input_file,ignored_attr_types,max_entries,process_url_schemes,line_sep)

	def handle(self,dn,entry):
		if 'organizationalPerson' in entry['objectClass']:
			print "dn: ",entry.get('dn',[''])[0]
			print "givenName: ",entry.get('givenName',[''])[0]
			# etc., etc.
file = open(args[0],'r')
ldif_parser = zimbraParser(file)
ldif_parser.parse()