[lug] Migrating users

[Paul Nowosielski]

On Thursday 22 February 2007 12:43, bgiles at coyotesong.com wrote:
> > On 2/22/07, Paul Nowosielski <paul at celebrityaccess.com> wrote:
> >> Dear All,
> >>
> >> I'm in the middle of migrating our WWW/FTP server to a new box.
> >> I have many ftp users that grab data feeds from our server.
> >> I'm wondering if I can just copy /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd files to
> >> the new
> >> server or will I have to actually add the users manually.
> >
> > I have successfully done that in the past.
>
> Not so fast, it depends on what apps you're running and how they're set
> up.  If it's basic Apache authentication of static content then you just
> need the .htpasswd files in the document tree.  If your webapp is more
> sophisticated you'll need to do more work -- anything from copying some
> extra files to installing and configuring a full database.
>
> FTP, on the other hand.... let's just say that there's a bullet-pocked
> wall for any sysadmin who still uses system accounts for FTP access.
> Again you'll need to do research to discover how authentication is handled
> and copy over those files.
>
> So the first step is figuring out exactly what you have.  Which webapps,
> which ftp server....
>
>
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Dear All ,
 
Thanks for the insight. It really helped ;)


Best,
-- 
Paul Nowosielski
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