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Copying SYSUAF and RIGHTSLIST?

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The Question is:

 
I have to migrate all the user profiles from an old VAX running OpenVMS V6.2 to
 a new DS20 running OpenVMS Alpha V7.3-1. This involves the migration of
 SYSUAF.DAT, RIGHTSLIST.DAT and VMSMAIL_PROFILE.DATA.
The question: is the format of these files compatible between OpenVMS VAX V6.2
 and OpenVMS Alpha V7.3-1? In other words, can I simply copy the user records
 from the old files to the new files? (there are no duplicate entries, since
 the new files come from
 a newly installed system - obviously I will not copy records such as
 "DEFAULT", "SYSTEM", "SYSTEST", etc). I plan to perform the migration using
 the same guidelines for merging SYSUAF, RIGHTSLIST and VMSMAIL_PROFILE when
 building a homogeneous VMScluster
 (as found in Ask Compaq). Is this the correct way to do this operation?
Thank you very much for your help.
Massimo Vitali

The Answer is :

 
  Please see the OpenVMS FAQ section entitled "Can I copy SYSUAF to
  another version?  To VAX?  To Alpha?", and please see topics here
  including (60), (203), (767), (915), (961), (1201), (1861), (6106),
  (6735), (6982), (6982) and others.
 

  
     
     answer written or last revised on ( 28-MAY-2003 )
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