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  • Wiki: give importing people its own page It was a section two-thirds of the way down LDAP-and-Active-Directory, which is a page about signing in. Anybody sent that link had to read about bind accounts and group gating before reaching their answer, and the question people actually ask - "how do I import my AD users?" - was not the title of anything. Three pages, three jobs: LDAP-and-Active-Directory signing in Importing-People-from-a-Directory the how-to <- the one to send people Directory-Sync the design record The sign-in page keeps a short pointer explaining why importing exists at all (the people who hold equipment are largely the people who never log in), so the link is worth following rather than a bare cross-ref. Expanded on the way: prerequisites, step-by-step with the tree and the mapping test, the full table of what happens when somebody leaves or a branch is renamed, the CLI for scheduling until that is built, and a troubleshooting table keyed on what you actually see on screen. All links verified to resolve; sidebar updated.

    @edmozley edmozley committed Aug 16, 2026