Re: [cobalt-users] Re: Import Users into Virtusertable

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Bruce Timberlake wrote:

> > Beautiful :0 I suppose same process applies to aliases with appropriate
> > changes to filenames.
>
> Should be.
>
> > Is this all that's required to import virtual e-mail users into RAQ4i?
>
> Well, they won't be properly figured into the quota calculations, etc.
> They really should be added to the PostgreSQL database, have home
> directories set up under the appropriate virtual sites, etc.
>
> But if you just want them to be email users, then yes, it should be
> sufficient.
>
> > How about the passwords then? Where do they go?
>
> /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. That will be more complicated to
> accomplish... sorry, I don't have a quick-and-easy script to do that,
> but I'm sure something like that must exist out on the 'net someplace...

I have had good results just cutting and pasting from one servers passwd
and shadow files to another servers.

Gerald
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