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

[Shawn Hladky]

Reviews work with P4AUTH in 2006.2 and newer.  From p4 help undoc:

P4AUTH is set in the outer server's environment to the address
    of the central server.  It may also be passed to the outer server
    with the -a flag.  Both servers must be 2002.2 or greater.
    The outer server must be 2006.2 or greater for 'p4 review' and
    'p4 reviews'.

    There are a number of limitations: setting P4AUTH immediately
    masks any local user/group information (unsetting it unmasks it);
    'p4 review' and 'p4 reviews' require remote depot access enabled for
    the 'remote' user on the central server; and protections carried
    out in the central server based on the client IP address for
    forwarded commands must be granted using the IP address prefixed by
    the string 'proxy-' to distinguish them from trusted, non-forwarded
    clients.  Protections for non-forwarded commands are enforced by
    the outer server and use the plain client IP address, even if they
    come from the central server.

On 6/28/07, Ivey, William <william_ivey at bmc.com> wrote:
>
> The server has its own protect table, but you're
> right about groups - must make a note of that...
>
> P4AUTH is cool, but it doesn't allow you to run
> reviews on the outside server (it can't see the
> reviews section of the user form). Also, giving
> them their own license encourages them to pay
> for their slots from their own budget :-)
>
> -Wm
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Lewis [mailto:dlewis78731 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:01 PM
> To: Ivey, William
> Cc: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] Moving users between servers - any good tricks?
>
> 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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