Transfer user accounts from 10.20 to 11.11

[Guy Humphreys]

Dear all,

I need to transfer all our user accounts from our old and failing 10.20 box to a brand new sparkling 11i machine.

the tricky part is the 10.20 is running untrusted and the new one is in trusted mode. I cannot change the 10.20 to trusted as various apps will break.

Can I revert the new one to untrusted, copy /etc/passwd and /etc/group and then convert back to trusted mode? Will my users passwords be retained?

thanks for any help with this

cheers
Guy

[DCE · Accepted solution]

Guy,

Yes you can convert back to untrusted, and copy the files over and reconvert to trusted.

A couple of alerts though.

Don't forget the home directory structure as well - just because you copy the password list does not mean the users will actually have a home directory.

When you convert to trusted remember that all passwords over 8 characters will be truncated.

finally have an additional root window open when you convert back to trusted. That way if the root password is disabled, you have a way to reset it.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Guy,

The only way to reliably migrate the users password information is to convert back to untrusted first.

I used to not do that an issue new passwords with a reminder concerning password security rules as a way to improve awareness of security.

SEP

[Joseph C. Denman]

As stated above, you should have no problems uncoverting the system bringing over the passwd file and reconverting.

Are you also pulling the users home directory as well? If not, make sure you create the directorys and assign appropriate permissions. I would guess, you will at least pull over the .profiles/.logins???

[Guy Humphreys]

Thanks Guys, I figured I would have to do that, and yes the home accounts will also be transferred so that is all good

cheers
Guy