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

[Dave Lewis]

oh, I see... you could dump all the user forms to files and then read
them back in with p4 user -i, that should be pretty easy.

oh, probably the p4 protect table too...

and groups...   ok, this one might be a pain.

why turn off p4auth though?  is it a performance hit?

dave


On 6/28/07, Ivey, William <william_ivey at bmc.com> wrote:
> 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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