In Part One, I described the installation of Mac OS X Server 10.5, and the migration of settings from my old 10.4 Server to the new one, for a couple of services. In this article, I’ll go through the importing of user accounts and data from 10.4 (Tiger) to 10.5 (Leopard).

Migrating User Accounts From LDAP

The method that Apple recommends in their Upgrading and Migrating manual is to select user accounts in Workgroup Manager (WGM), and choose Export from Server menu. This creates a comma-delimited text file of your user account data which can be imported with WGM in Leopard. However, the passwords are left out of the export.

Note: The method I describe below is the hard way. Please see the comments after the article for a discussion on the easy way: use OD’s backup & restore capability. If the new server has different DNS and IP address settings, there are special steps, as discussed in the comments.

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