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ntimport Utility—Import Windows Users and Groups

Valid on Windows

The ntimport utility extracts Windows users and groups from the Windows operating system database for import into a local database. The utility creates the Windows commands necessary to add users and groups to the local CA ControlMinder database.

Important. CA ControlMinder lets use Windows users and groups directly, without needing to import them into the database. Consider using this functionality of CA ControlMinder instead of the ntimport utility, which was developed before CA ControlMinder could use Windows users and groups directly.

The generated commands are displayed to the standard output. Use the option ‑f if you want to create a file to use as input to the selang utility.

This command has the following format:

ntimport {-a|{[-u] [-g] [-c]}} [-d] [-U] \

[-D] [-f filename] [-o owner] [-p pmdb] \
[-pa pmdb] [-r remote-host] [-v]

‑a

Performs all actions of the -c, ‑g, and ‑u switches.

‑c

Generates the selang commands required to join users to their default groups.

-d

Imports users and groups with their domain as prefix.

-D

Retrieves user and group information from the first available domain controller.

‑f filename

Redirects the output to the specified file.

‑g

Generates selang commands required to import groups from Windows to the local database.

‑o owner

Sets ownership rules for each imported record. Use this flag, to prevent Administrator from automatically becoming the owner of all the records. Owner is the name of the user or group to be assigned ownership of all records defined by ntimport.

-p pmdb

Generates commands for importing user and groups into the AC environment of the pmdb.

-pa pmdb

Generates commands for importing user and groups into the AC and native environments of the pmdb.

-pn pmdb

Generates commands for importing user and groups into native environment of the pmdb.

-r remote-host

Retrieves user and group information from specified remote-host.

‑u

Generates the selang commands required to import users from the Windows database to the local database. Names longer than 40 characters are truncated.

‑U

Generates the selang commands required to import surrogate rules for users.

‑v

Provides the user with progress information. Use this flag to verify the program's progress when there are many users or groups.