[Rt-devel] Updating RT from an LDAP database

[Jonah Hirsch]

I realized that my line numbers will be different as I've edited the script.

Line 70: my $ldaphandle = RT::User::LdapConnect();
Jonah Hirsch
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On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Jonah Hirsch <crazydog115 at gmail.com> wrote:

> We just migrated our RT system from an old installation on an old server to
> a new one that will use LDAP to create users.
>
> The issue is that we already have a good number of users on the old system,
> and would like to keep them around.
>
> I realize the most straight forward decision is to simply rename the users
> (and change their email addresses), and when they are recreated when a user
> first logs in, just shred the old accounts and replace the relations to the
> new ones.
>
> I then got to thinking that there must be a way to update the users in RT
> through LDAP, not only for this reason but for regular maintenance.
>
> Anyway, I was googling around and found this old script from 2005
> http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/rt-devel/2005-August/007451.html
> As it is 5 years old, it doesn't work well. I'm no RT developer, so it'd
> take a while to figure out what needs to be changed, so my question is,
> would anyone out there be able to update this script to work with a more
> current version of RT (as of emailing, 3.8.8). There really only is one
> error, so I'm hoping it wouldn't take too long.
>
> The one warning and one critical error I get are:
>
> [Thu Jul  8 19:00:13 2010] [warning]: Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for
>> non-method RT::User::LdapConnect() is deprecated at updateldap.pm line
>> 70. (updateldap.pm:70)
>
>  [Thu Jul  8 19:00:13 2010] [crit]: Can't call method "_Accessible" on an
>> undefined value at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/DBIx/SearchBuilder/Record.pm
>> line 423. (/opt/rt3/lib/RT.pm:382)
>
>  Can't call method "_Accessible" on an undefined value at
>> /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/DBIx/SearchBuilder/Record.pm line 423.
>
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Jonah Hirsch
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