1 Trusted system 1 Non-Trusted system

[Chrisl_2]

Hi all.

I am in the process of moving a production l2000 system to a new RP3410. The production system is trusted. The new system is not. To get the user accounts over, I was planning on copying the production system /etc/passwd file to the new system, then running tsconvert.

Is this the way to go?

TIA

[IT_2007]

Why don't you take ignite image and restore onto new server. Make sure that you shutdown actual production server before you bring up new one.

[Chrisl_2]

Ignite doesn't work across different hardware and OS platforms.

[Sp4admin]

Hi Chris,

You may want to copy the /etc/group file and create the /home directories also.

Sp,

[Patrick Wallek]

I would actually go about this the other way around.

I would:

1) Convert the new system to trusted.
2) Copy /etc/passwd, /etc/group and the /tcb directory structure from the old system to the new.

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

As root on the old (trusted) box.

cd /
tar xvf /tmp/passwd.tar /tcb /etc/passwd /etc/group /home

Now ftp, rcp, /tmp/passwd.tar to the new box.

Next login as root on the new box in at least two sessions so that you can get yourself out of trouble as fast as you got yourself in.

cp /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.safe
cp /etc/group /etc/group.safe

cd /
tar xvf /tmp/passwd.tar

This will copy the passwd, group, and the entire /tcb and /home directories in one swoop.

Now logout of ONE of your root session and attempt to login as root using the passwd of the original system. You should be good to go.

[Patrick Wallek]

Clay's first 'tar' statement should actually be 'tar cvf /tmp/passwd.tar /tcb /etc/passwd /etc/group /home' to Create the tar file.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Absolutely Patrick. That was state-of-the-art stupid on my part. Spelling definitely counts in UNIX.

[IT_2007]

oops. sorry i didn't check that you are migrating to different platform. You convert new system and then copy /tcb and /etc/passwd and group files.

[Chrisl_2]

Thanks all. I used the tar cf /etc/passwd /etc/group /tcb /home command. Then I extracted it on the new system. There was some weirdness with certain users (I might have it narrowed down to accounts that had passwords longer then 8 characters, still trying to figure it out).

Thanks again!