ldctl to generate test objects

23 Feb 2016

ldctl to generate test objects

I was told by some coworkers today at Red Hat that I can infact use ldctl to generate my databases for load testing with 389-ds.

First, create a template.ldif

objectClass: top
objectclass: person
objectClass: organizationalPerson
objectClass: inetorgperson
objectClass: posixAccount
objectClass: shadowAccount
sn: testnew[A]
cn: testnew[A]
uid: testnew[A]
givenName: testnew[A]
description: description[A]
userPassword: testnew[A]
mail: testnew[A]@redhat.com
uidNumber: 3[A]
gidNumber: 4[A]
shadowMin: 0
shadowMax: 99999
shadowInactive: 30
shadowWarning: 7
homeDirectory: /home/uid[A]

Now you can use ldctl to actually load in the data:

ldclt -h localhost -p 389 -D "cn=Directory Manager" -w password -b "ou=people,dc=example,dc=com" \
-I 68 -e add,commoncounter -e "object=/tmp/template.ldif,rdn=uid:[A=INCRNNOLOOP(0;3999;5)]"

Thanks to vashirov and spichugi for their advice and this example!