ldifmangle and ldifdiff

• ldifmangle: mangle (i.e. convert) ldif files according to rules in a config file maybe in order to populate a target system with the modified user data.

• ldifdiff: produces an ldif suited as input for ldapmodify for writing deltas to a target system

• Just copy the example directory and change the Makefile .. enjoy!

ldifmangle:

ldifmangle.py <configfile> (see example)

ldifdiff:

takes two input files (source, target resp. <from> and <to>) and generates an input file for ldapmodify to stdout (ldapmodify is part of the openldap suite) ldifdiff.py <from-ldif> <to-ldif> > output.ldif (see example)

Installation

• Prerequisites:
  • python-ldif3 (pip install ldif3)

Optional, but likely

• openldap

remarks

• using make Make is truly old, but here it is quite handy as in case of failures it does all the exception handling for us.