FW: [Fed-Talk] Active Directory Question
FW: [Fed-Talk] Active Directory Question
- Subject: FW: [Fed-Talk] Active Directory Question
- From: "Nichols, Jared" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:20:01 -0500
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Active Directory Question
Title: FW: [Fed-Talk] Active Directory Question
Hi-
Rich was nice enough to send these along to me. Haven’t tried it yet, but I’m sure someone’s in the same boat.
j
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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436
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From: Rich Trouton <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:15:53 -0500
To: "Nichols, Jared" <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Active Directory Question
I've been working on the same problem and ran across an AppleScript
that does the migration on 10.4.x that I was able to modify for use on
10.5.x. Here's a zipped copy of the scripts and AppleScript
applications for you to take a look at.
Thanks,
Rich
On Mar 5, 2009, at 9:36 AM, Nichols, Jared wrote:
> Hi-
>
> I’ve got a question about AD integration. I’ve bound Macs to Active
> Directories before, so that’s not where my question stems from. My
> question is this: If you have a local account on the computer with
> the same username as what their AD username is, how can you “flip”
> that local user into an AD user? Is it easy? I know I could log in
> as root, copy the local user folder, remove the local user, bind,
> login with AD user, copy user folder back, chown it and that’ll
> work, but that’s very manual. For you Top Gear watchers, “how hard
> could it be?”
>
> I’m sure someone’s run into this before... :)
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> Jared F. Nichols
> Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations
> Information Services Department
> MIT Lincoln Laboratory
> 244 Wood Street
> Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
> 781.981.5436
>
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Rich Trouton (Contractor)
LAN Support
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