[Info-vax] Moving UAF records from Cluster to Cluster

[IanMiller]

On Jul 27, 1:50 pm, Paul Sture <paul.nos... at sture.ch> wrote:
> In article <JfL3a$0LJ... at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
>  koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:
>
> > In article <j0mndq$f0... at dont-email.me>, Thomas Wirt <twn... at kittles.com>
> > writes:
> > > I am migrating from a VMS Alpha cluster to a new VMS IA64 cluster. I
> > > would like to be able to move individual accounts/records from one
> > > cluster to the other. Is there a tool that would allow me to move or
> > > export/import a user from one UAF to another without reentering the data
> > > by hand or writing a script to take authorize output and change it into
> > > an input command?
>
> >    sort/merge can merge two sysuaf.  Just make sure you tell it how to
> >    deal with duplicates.
>
> And you want to make sure that the correct SYSTEM, DEFAULT, networking
> etc records  for the architecture are used.
>
> Apologies for bashing on about this, but we ended pp with the wrong
> quotas during a transition from VAX to Alpha.
>
> There's also the question of RIGHTSLIST.DAT and VMSMAIL_PROFILE.DATA.
>
> I personally prefer to use DCL to feed a list of usernames and account
> details into AUTHORIZE and let that pick up values from the DEFAULT
> record and handle the RIGHTSIST stuff.
>
> --
> Paul Sture

An updated version of MIN_QUOTAS.COM from http://dcl.openvms.org/stories.php?story=05/07/28/2894075
is also useful after selectively copying the usernames.