Re: Passwords when moving users?

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From: Warren Frush
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 00:00

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In article <DBAEqH.7u9@cf.ac.uk> cookc@cf.ac.uk (Chris Cook) writes:

>We're reorganising a lot of our Netware servers this Summer and will be moving 
>departments and individuals between them.  I'm told that when users are moved
>they have to be issued with new passwords as their old ones can't be copied 
>over.  Is there no way of dumping the bindery to a text file, extracting the
>relevant details including the encrypted password, then reloading them into the
>new bindery?

It's an expensive solution, but Preferred System's Origen is a commercial product just for 
this type of thing.  Expensive=$495/server.  It allows off-line editing of all things Novell, 
and then you can put it down on a server in one, quick, usually clean pass that takes about 
5-10 minutes.

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From: wfrush@sc.scruznet.com (Warren Frush)
Subject: Re: Passwords when moving users?
Date: 1995/07/10
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