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[Redmond Militante <address@concealed>]

Please disregard this message.  I uninstalled sympa, reinstalled it, and 
tried migration again and it worked.

+++ Redmond Militante <address@concealed> [06/05/17 16:07]:
> I had a fresh install of sympa 5.2 on working fine.
> 
> What I wanted to do was to migrate archives and config settings of all the 
> mailing lists from another sympa server and migrate them onto the new 5.2 
> install.
> 
> I used 
> 
> http://www.sympa.org/doc/html/node6.html#SECTION00660000000000000000
> 
> as a reference for moving the lists from the old server and onto the 5.2 
> install.
> 
> 1. I backed up /var/lib/mysql/sympa, /home/sympa/spool/, /home/sympa/expl/, 
> home/sympa/arc, and /etc/sympa.conf & wwsympa.conf - and moved them to the 
> new server.
> 
> 2. I edit the /data_structure.version on the new server ; change the 
> version value to reflect the old number - 4.1.5 instead of 5.2.
> 
> I am locked out.  I'm not able to log in via ldap or the user table.
> 
> The reason I'm guessing is that i overwrote sympa.conf, and changed the 
> value of 'cookie' parameter to the the value on the old server.
> 
> quote: 'the  directory and /etc/sympa.conf and wwsympa.conf. Sympa new 
> installation create a file /etc/sympa.conf (see 7) and initialize randomly 
> the cookie parameter. Changing this parameter will break all passwords. 
> When upgrading Sympa on a new server take care that you start with the same 
> value of this parameter, otherwise you will have troubles !'
> 
> I read the above statement the wrong way.
> 
> I tried changing the value of 'cookie' back to the original value, but I'm 
> still locked out.
> 
> Is there any way to fix this?
> 
> Redmond
> 
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> Redmond Militante / NSIT / The University of Chicago
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