[BlueOnyx:07667] Re: Question about importing accounts

[Ken - Precision Web Hosting, Inc]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Komar" <mkomar at serverrack.net>
To: "BlueOnyx General Mailing List" <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 11:02 AM
Subject: [BlueOnyx:07666] Re: Question about importing accounts


>I thought cadduser wanted a plaintext password. Is that not the case?
>
> On 7/11/2011 1:45 PM, Ken - Precision Web Hosting, Inc wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Frank DeChellis
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I am new to the list but have been using Blue Onyx for close to a year. 
>> The
>> person working with us has been using it for a number of years.
>>
>> I have a server running NetBSD with a few thousand email accounts.  I 
>> want
>> to migrate these users to a blue onyx box.  Reading the CMU page I can't
>> tell if it is for Blue Onyx to Blue Onyx migrations or if it's possible 
>> to
>> read in the passwd file from a BSD server and create accounts in Blue 
>> Onyx.
>>
>> Before writing I tried to search out the question but I only found a few
>> similar questions that generating no discussion.
>>
>> Any info that anybody may have is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Frank
>>
>> Frank DeChellis
>> President, Internet Access Worldwide
>> Welland, Ontario, Canada
>> www.iaw.com
>> <<
>>
>>
>>
>> Frank
>>
>> If the NetBSD uses shadow files, then you could write a script uses the
>> shell tools to  create the email accounts; then have it modify the shadow
>> value to what was on the old server.
>> Something like
>> 
>> usr/sbin/cadduser --name=$adminuser --password='$password'  --fqdn=$hostname.$domainname
>>   --admin --adminPassword='$serveradminpassword'
>>
>> cat /etc/shadow | grep the-username
>> #the-username:$1$uqRVSP68$wQpEZAOzusYGwi7rbxYyL0:15161:0:99999:7:::
>> split it out
>> paste in the  value from the old server and save the file.
>>
>> You could test it manually, then create the perl script if that works.
>>
>>
>> ----
>> Ken M
>> Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
>> http://www.precisionweb.net
>>
>>


>>I thought cadduser wanted a plaintext password. Is that not the case?

Yes. But you'd set a generic password as it will not be used.
Then edit the /etc/shadow file to paste in the correct value from the old 
server's shadow file.
So the password created by the cadduser  would not be used.


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Ken M
Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
http://www.precisionweb.net