It’s getting down to crunch time here. Students will be back soon, and as UCS finishes up the migration for all those user accounts, I’ve been pretty busy programming scripts to automate parts of that process. (If we tried moving four thousand email accounts by hand, the migration wouldn’t get finished until next year!) So I’ve been setting up scripts for moving email accounts, changing entries in the email alias file (which is how our email system knows whether your mail needs to go to the old or the new system) and preparing user information so that unix accounts can be moved into an LDAP database.

I’ve also finished coding up a couple of generalized PL/SQL functions so our programmers can look people up in the new user database. This probably won’t mena much to most people, but if any of you programmers need more LDAP lookup functions, let me know. Want to be able to check if a user si faculty, staff, or student? Want to be able to do name or email address searches in LDAP? I can get you a function to do that kind of stuff.

When I have more time, I’ll post some more general blog entries about LDAP and other such topics, so everyone will have an easier time understanding the stuff I talk about here.

That’s it for now, though!