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256 Appendix Importing and Exporting Account Information
The following group account attributes might be present in the XML files:
 Group name (required)
 Group ID (required)
 One member’s short name (required)
 Other members’ short names
Using XML Files Created with AppleShare IP 6.3
You can use the Web & File Admin application on an AppleShare IP 6.3 server to create
an export file and then use Workgroup Manager or dsimport to import that file into an
Open Directory domain.
The following user account attributes are exported into the XML files. An error occurs
when you import a file with missing required attributes.
 Name (required, mapped to a long name)
 InetAlias (mapped to a short name)
 Comment
 Indication of whether user can log in
 Password format (required) and password text (required)
 Apple mail data
 Indicator for whether the user is a server administrator, password change data, and
indicator for forcing a password to change (this data is ignored)
The dsimport tool generates user IDs when you import this XML file, using the -s
parameter to determine the user ID to start with and incrementing each subsequent
imported account’s user ID by one. It generates primary group IDs using the -r
parameter.
When you import using Workgroup Manager, user IDs and primary group IDs are
generated as you indicate in the dialog provided.
The following group account attributes might be present in these XML files:
 Group name (required)
 One member’s short name (required)
 Other members’ short names
The dsimport tool generates group IDs when you import this XML file, using the -r
parameter to determine the group ID to start with, and incrementing each subsequent
imported group’s ID by one.
When you import using Workgroup Manager, group IDs are generated using the
information you provide for group IDs in the import dialog.