[p4] Moving users between servers - any good tricks?

[Ivey, William]

No, everything except the users is already there. It's
already an independent server except that it gets its
user information/authentication from our main server.

It looks as though all I have to do is shut it down,
remove P4AUTH, install the license then create each
of the user accounts. From what I can tell when it
comes back up it won't know the difference (except
that user passwords will be reset).

The alternative appears to be checkpoint surgery,
moving the user information from the main server
checkpoint to the other server's checkpoint.

-Wm


-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Lewis [mailto:dlewis78731 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 9:50 AM
To: Ivey, William
Cc: perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: Re: [p4] Moving users between servers - any good tricks?

it doesn't sound like anything needs to be done!

so perhaps you want to move their source base and clients, open files
and etc to the other server?

dave

On 6/27/07, Ivey, William <william_ivey at bmc.com> wrote:
> I need to split a server's user population into two,
> moving about 20% of the users from one to the other.
>
> Currently the "other" server uses P4AUTH to
> authenticate from the primary server so these will be
> "new" users only in the sense that they are local to
> the server now. (These are also the only users who
> ever used the other server, so there shouldn't be any
> mismatch between file-related metadata and users.)
>
> I've never tried to do this before. Anyone have any
> tips?
>
> -Wm
>
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