What is LDIF
- LDAP Data Interchange Format
- Represents LDAP entries in text
- Human readable format
- Allows easy modification of data
- Useful for doing bulk changes
- dump db, run a script over, import back
- Can use templates for additions
- Good for backups and transferring data to another system
- Utilities to convert from database to ldif and back
- ldbmcat: ldbm database to ldif
- ldif2ldbm: ldif to ldbm database
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