36.9. Migrating NIS domains to Identity Management

Procedure

1. Add users and groups in the IdM domain.

   1. Create users using the ipa user-add command. For more information, see Adding users to IdM.
   2. Create groups using the ipa group-add command. For more information see: Adding groups to IdM.

2. Override IDs IdM generated during the user creation:

   1. Create a new ID view using ipa idview-add command. For more information see: Getting help for ID view commands.
   2. Add ID overrides for the users and groups to the ID view using ipa idoverrideuser-add and idoverridegroup-add respectively.
3. Assign the ID view to the specific hosts using ipa idview-apply command.
4. Decommission the NIS domains.

Verification

1. To check if all users and groups were added to the ID view correctly, use the ipa idview-show command.

   $ ipa idview-show example-view
     ID View Name: example-view
     User object overrides: example-user1
     Group object overrides: example-group