Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ2 to RaQ4 Migration

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 8/10/00 9:17 AM, Ed Booher, Jr at ebooher@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> Here is an interesting question that I haven't seen addressed
> yet, though I'm sure it has been and I just haven't found it in
> the archives yet.  Where does the RaQ store all of it's encrypted
> passwords for the individual web sites?  My company has just
> ordered 2 RaQ4r's, that we are going to use with StaQWare.  We
> need to migrate all of the customer data from the RaQ2 to the
> RaQ4 and want to make it as seemless as possible.  Hence, calling
> and asking roughly 1000 users what their password is, (122 sites
> with roughly 10 users per site) is not at all seamless.
> 
> Any ideas?

In the next week or so I will be migrating a Raq2 to a Raq4.  I am planning
on making this transparent to the users and so am going to be trying to move
the password files, etc.  I am actually wondering if I am going to be able
to do this the way that the groups files are set up, etc.

At least I'll be able to cut and paste their passwords from their old
machines.

The process for that is to make sure that you have the user set up on the
new Raq.  The actual passwords are stored in the shadowed password file
(/etc/shadow) which is only readable by root.  Theoretically you should be
able to cut and paste these hashes and it should work.  However I haven't
tested this (yet), so proceed at your own risk.

-k