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DESCRIPTION

makendb is a tool that can be used to update (and possibly dump) NSS_NDB databases. It also contains special update modes for importing passwd and group files.

Please note: In order for the nss_ndb backend to be able to extract the list of groups for a specific user efficiently is important to import both passwd and group data so the group.byuser database can be populated. makendb does this automatically if you import both.

For large installations with large amounts of users & groups you probably want to use some other tool to import data into the NDB databases. One example of such a tool written in Perl called ndbsync can be found in the examples directory. This tool syncs the local NDB databases with a remote MySQL database and can be run from cron.

OPTIONS

-h

Displays usage information

-V

Display version number

-v

Increase verbosity (may be specified multiple times)

-d

Increase internal debugging level (may be specified multiple times)

-k

Also print the "key" when dumping databases.

-p

Print (dump) the database contents.

-u

Enable unique mode. Refuse to overwrite already existing records in the database when importing. -Ddelim Specify field delimiter characters. By default uses ":".

-T type

Specify type of file to read. Valid types are passwd or group and must be specified when importing data into the NDB databases.

EXAMPLES

$ makendb -T passwd /var/db/nss_ndb/passwd </etc/master.passwd
$ makendb -T group /var/db/nss_ndb/group </etc/group

FILES

/usr/local/share/examples/nss_ndb/ndbsync

/var/db/nss_ndb

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