[LON-CAPA-admin] System upgrade: moving users over?

[Lars Jensen]

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for the reply. The problem is that I'm going from suse to Centos, 
and apparently it is not possible to just copy over the password fils - 
see comment on the page you referred me to:

"Transfer /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group, /etc/gshadow from the 
old machine to the new one

Warning: this does not work if you go from Fedora to SUSE or vice versa, 
since these distributions use different encryption algorithms. If you 
switch distributions, you need to make the file-system-based LON-CAPA 
users from the command line."

Two years ago, we went from Fedora to Suse, and we managed to transfer 
the users fine. Unfortunately, I don't remember how we transferred the 
users, but I recall a similar problem to the one I'm seeing here.

Lars.

Stefan Bisitz wrote:
> Hi Lars,
> 
> I guess that the host entries somewhere in the system are not all
> correctly configured. But before starting to search please have a look
> at:
> http://loncapa.org/hardwareupgrade.html
> 
> Your questions should be answered there. If not, please tell so the site
> can be updated.
> 
> By the way, creation of a new domain coordinator is not necessary.
> Follow the steps carfully and you'll get your whole old system on the
> new one.
> 
> Stefan Bisitz
> 
> 
> On 13.05.2009, 21:14 -0700, Lars Jensen wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> We're preparing for a system upgrade of our lon-capa system. We're 
>> moving from suse to CentOS 5.3. I moved the /home/httpd directory over 
>> and I created the domain coordinator. How do I move the users over? When 
>> I login as a user, I get a "Currently no active roles or courses" message.
>>
>> Lars.
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