CLAYTON@XRT.UPENN.EDU ("Clayton, Paul D.") (06/24/88)
Ed McGuire has given the following answer to an apparent question about moving users from one system to another. I did not get the original message containing the question, so all the background is not available to me. I do have one concern with what Ed has suggested, which is shown below. > Moving SYSUAF.DAT seems reasonable to me. Don't simply MODIFY/DEVICE on all > accounts, though, or you'll change accounts you shouldn't, such as SYSTEM, > FIELD and SYSTEST. I'd print a list first and go back and fix the ones that > shouldn't change: The concern is that should the SYSUAF be copied as a whole, instead of creating the accounts fresh on the system, then the RIGHTS database should also be copied over also. This will provide for the ALPHA UIC and all the defined ACL ID's that may have been defined. The other file worth consideration for coping is the VMSMAIL.DAT file. This would keep the users newmail, and other personal settings the way they were on the original system. Have fun... pdc Paul D. Clayton Address - CLAYTON%XRT@CIS.UPENN.EDU Disclaimer: All thoughts and statements here are my own and NOT those of my employer, and are also not based on, or contain, restricted information.
face@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu (Chris Janton) (07/09/88)
There are 4 files that contain critical user information that should
be moved from SYS$SYSTEM when moving users from one VMS system to
another
SYSUAF.DAT
RIGHTSLIST.DAT
VMSMAIL.DAT
NETUAF.DAT
The NETUAF file contains proxy ids that may be useful on the new
system
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