[BlueOnyx:07680] Re: Question about importing accounts

[Rodrigo Ordoñez Licona]

Sorry for the top post.


I was able to import users from a foreign system using the import feature
from within a site.

As a site admin there are two import export options.

you can create a user manually an export the file. 

The file is a csv that contains username, aliases, disk space

You can create a similar file with your users from an aexcel spreadsheet and
import it. (that is for the account creation only)

Old Email migration would be another issue, 

however this procedure saved me a lot of trouble especially for sites with
several users

HTH

Rodrigo O
Xnet

-----Mensaje original-----
De: blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it
[mailto:blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it] En nombre de Ken - Precision Web
Hosting, Inc
Enviado el: Lunes, 11 de Julio de 2011 01:07 p.m.
Para: BlueOnyx General Mailing List
Asunto: [BlueOnyx:07667] Re: Question about importing accounts


----- 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.


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





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