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From: CLAYTON@XRT.UPENN.EDU ("Clayton, Paul D.")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Another Item On Moving Users To A New VAX System...
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Date: 24 Jun 88 02:25:00 GMT
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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.