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Title: lat tools on SME 9.2
Post by: gsimpson on July 23, 2017, 09:10:43 AM

Hi,

I am moving users from SME 8 to SME 9.
I am using LAT to move these and noticed something unusual.
After I created the users on SME 9, I went to the Users tab on the Server Manager page and all the users
have "Account is Locked" and "Reset Password".
I used the shadow file to re-create the user passwords and they all were created (At least it said so).

I logged into the machine via Horde, and was able to do so with no issue.
I cannot seem to log into the server manager as another user though.

Can anyone tell me how to fix this without resetting each and every password?

Thanks,
Greg Simpson

Title: Re: lat tools on SME 9.2
Post by: Stefano on July 23, 2017, 01:33:29 PM

First of all, would you mint to explain us why are you using LAT and not just backup and restore

Title: Re: lat tools on SME 9.2
Post by: mmccarn on July 23, 2017, 05:50:16 PM

I migrated a couple systems from SME 8 to SME 9.2 using LAT.

On the second one I had to re-restore the passwords (as none of them were working correctly). My notes say that I did this:

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# force password restore from SME 8.2
cd /root/lat-dump
/usr/sbin/lat-shadow -a -i=mail.shadow -f
signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot

(/root/lat-dump on the new server contained the LAT output files from the original system)

Title: Re: lat tools on SME 9.2
Post by: mophilly on July 24, 2017, 09:16:59 PM

Quote from: mmccarn on July 23, 2017, 05:50:16 PM

On the second one I had to re-restore the passwords (as none of them were working correctly). My notes say that I did this:

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# force password restore from SME 8.2
cd /root/lat-dump
/usr/sbin/lat-shadow -a -i=mail.shadow -f
signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot

(/root/lat-dump on the new server contained the LAT output files from the original system)

That looks like a good note to add to the LAT contrib page under "server migration". I will add a comment there but let me know if that isn't proper. I can take it out if needed.

Title: Re: lat tools on SME 9.2
Post by: gsimpson on July 24, 2017, 09:33:48 PM

Thanks!

This worked. Had to do it twice, just like yours.

Quote from: mmccarn on July 23, 2017, 05:50:16 PM

I migrated a couple systems from SME 8 to SME 9.2 using LAT.

On the second one I had to re-restore the passwords (as none of them were working correctly). My notes say that I did this:

Code: [Select]

# force password restore from SME 8.2
cd /root/lat-dump
/usr/sbin/lat-shadow -a -i=mail.shadow -f
signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot

(/root/lat-dump on the new server contained the LAT output files from the original system)

Title: Re: lat tools on SME 9.2
Post by: mmccarn on July 25, 2017, 12:27:20 PM

Quote from: gsimpson on July 24, 2017, 09:33:48 PM

This worked. Had to do it twice, just like yours.

I think the important bit is the extra "-f"

Quote from: perldoc /usr/sbin/lat-shadow

-f, --force
           Force update if password is not empty in the shadow file on the SME box