[BlueOnyx:09203] Re: migration problems BQ to BO

[Chuck Tetlow]

What in the world would be the purpose of:
EXPORTING A BLUEQUARTZ,
IMPORTING IT TO A BLUEONYX,
RE-EXPORTING FROM THE BLUEONYX,
and IMPORTING TO A BLUEQUARTZ??

That seems like a ridiculous set of steps and gets you right back onto a BlueQuartz machine!!

To date, I've converted about fourteen BlueQuartz servers to BlueOnyx.  Every one of them was done:
1)cmuExport sites and MySQLDump all databases on BlueQuartz server,
2)wipe and reload machine with BlueOnyx,
3)cmuImport sites and cat databases to MySQL server,
with the only thing left to do is fix any sites using Joomla, Wordpress, or similar packages that puts the full path in its configuration file (since the site# usually changes in the cmuExport/cmuImport process).

The only issue I've had with passwords - while BlueOnyx does a password security/strength check on all passwords you put in, cmuImport bypasses that process.  So idiots on the old BlueQuartz server with passwords like "123456", "password", or the same as the username had that poor password on the new BlueOnyx server.  And the inevitable hacking found them/exploited the BlueOnyx server just as they had on the BlueQuartz servers. 

So I had to institute a policy of running "Jack the Ripper" against password files when converting - and then suspending any users with easily guessed passwords until they'd been updated on the new BlueOnyx server.  But other than that - I've never had a password problem with using cmuExport/cmuImport.

Chuck

--------- Original Message -----------
From: "J. Ronken" <jw at ronken.net> 
To: <blueonyx at blueonyx.it> 
Sent: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:50:52 -0600 
Subject: [BlueOnyx:09201]  migration problems BQ to BO

> Hi,
> I have problems migrating from BlueQuartz to BlueOnyx (one of our old mailservers is still running bluequartz, but needs to be replaced now).
> We used nuonce system backup function (a frontend to raqbackup.sh) for the export and then import on the BlueOnyx box.
> All sites and users import fine, however there are some (no idea yet how many of the total) users where the password is not valid (checking mail or ssh login).
> What I figured out so far:
> 1. Cmu.xml contains the encrypted passwords when exporting from BQ.
> 2. After an import in BO and then exporting it again, the new cmu.xml has the same encrypted passwords, importing these in BQ works fine.
> 3. Until now, it seems that only a few users (2 of 20 tested, but that is still 20%!) have this problem.
> What can be the cause of this? 
> 
> Thanks
> jan
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