How to Copy or Migrate Users and Groups from One OID (Oracle Internet Directory) server to Another OID server (Doc ID 251776.1)

Last updated on MAY 01, 2024

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Goal

Purpose
Explain how to copy or migrate users from one  Oracle Internet Directory (OID) to another and to explain some of the additional considerations for OracleAS 10g 9.0.4 and above. In fact these steps can also be applied to moving any user and group entries from one OID to another, for example for Enterprise User Security (EUS) RDBMS use.

Scope & Application
This is aimed at Oracle9iAS/OracleAS 10g 11g and 12c, and OID administrators who simply need to move  users from one system to another. To some extent Portal groups are taken into account, though these may not always be present.

This approach can also be used as a general reference to loading SSO users and groups from LDIF files, as well as for adding EUS users into OID.

When moving to Portal version 9.0.4 or above there will be new Portal groups already present in the target infrastructure of the format portal.<6 digit number>.<4 digit number>. It is likely that one would wish to populate some or all of the users to the "uniquemember" attribute of these groups to assign appropriate privileges. This is outside the scope of this note.

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