Importing security groups

You can import users from an existing network directory service, such as Microsoft Active Directory or Novell eDirectory. You must first set up the authentication provider, which determines which users and/or security groups will be imported. You can configure the authentication provider to be run periodically. When the authentication provider is re-run, only new or changed data will be imported. First name, last name, status, and email address are used to determine which users are new and/or have been changed. A user's username, password, domain, and authentication provider will remain unchanged.

To import security groups

  1. From the top-level navigation, open the Admin module.
  2. Select System Settings.
  3. In the Import Users dialog box, select the authentication provider from which you are importing.
  4. The Import Users dialog box displays your authentication provider settings as read-only.
  5. Type the following in the Name and Password boxes:
  6. If the authentication provider you selected uses the Application authentication type, type the database user name and password in the corresponding boxes. If the authentication provider you selected uses the Microsoft Active Directory authentication type, type the domain user name (such as user name), a qualified domain name (such as domain/username), or a full distinguished name (such as cn=username,ou=pretend, dc=domain, dc=com) and password in the corresponding boxes. If the authentication provider you selected uses the Novell eDirectory authentication type, type a full distinguished name and password in the corresponding boxes.
  7. Click Import. When users are imported, their user name and password are lowercase. When the import completes, click OK. If the import returns an error, check the authentication provider to ensure it is configured properly. Also ensure that the user context running the import has sufficient rights on the directory services server. If the user context does not have sufficient rights, the query will return null strings for those parts of the query the user cannot access. Once you have imported the users and groups, you can edit their information on the Users tab and Groups tab in the Security.