OT: SCO - How can I transfer users from server A to server B

[Bill Vermillion]

On Fri, Aug 13 12:45 , Men gasped, women fainted, and small children 
were reduced to tears as Enrique Arredondo confessed to all:" 

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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jean-Pierre A. Radley" <appl at jpr.com>
> To: "FilePro Mailing List" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 6:46 PM
> Subject: Re: OT: SCO - How can I transfer users from server A to server B
> 
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> > Bill Vermillion propounded (on Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 07:36:37PM -0400):
> > | On Fri, Jul 30 17:34 , Men gasped, women fainted, and small children 
> > | were reduced to tears as Lerebours, Jose confessed to all:" 
> > | 
> > | > Need to take all users from server A and create them 
> > | > in server B.  I know there is a way to do this by
> > | > simply executing a command or two in lieu of 
> > | > creating them all one at a time.
> > | > 
> > | > I cannot find info on it and can really use it!
> > | 
> > | Try    man ap    and it will tell you all you need to know.
> > | 
> > | And if you need more than just move users from A to B and move
> > | other things such as applications, etc., - IOW building a new
> > | server, you can  make life even easier by ftp'ing to
> > | ftp.jpr.com.  and get his   savefiles script.
> > | 
> > | That along with ap and his instructions make upgrades virtually
> > | painless.
> > 
> > The savefiles script, by default, already runs ap.

> Would this script work if I'm moving from OSR 505 to OSR 507 ?

It is absolutely perfect for that.

I had a system where something became corrupt deep down in
the /var/opt/.... tree.

At first I thought it was one or two files, but it became apparent
it was much more than that when kernel builds would not work with
strange failure.

The  ap   is perfect for migrating within the OSR5 series.

It makes things truly painless.

Bill
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