Our project has many users using git repositories.
These users access git repositories with TortoiseGit by ssh://xxxx@reponame.
Now I am preparing GitLab and put my repositories to /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/reporitories/root, and then imported them into GitLab by following command.
# gitlab-rake gitlab:import:repos
It seems fine if I logged in GitLab.
Now how can I import /home/xxx users to GitLab?
It seems that GitLab manages users with LDAP, are there any useful functions in GitLab or LDAP?
Gitlab offers multiple authentication methods. Gitlab can manage the user accounts itself or can use external services such as LDAP. For a full list and how to configure it, please take a look on GitLab Integration documentation.
GitLab offers an API which can be used to automatically add new users. You need to create a script for that, but its worth if you have dozens of users. There is actually a python module pyapi-gitlab for this API. I also stumbled on a quick search over a tool called python-gitlab I haven't heard about before. Might be worth a try.
This documentation might be helpful when it comes to adding existing users to already available groups
