[freeside] Importing Legacy master.passwd data with svc_acct.import

[ivan]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 11:43:43AM +1000, Tim McCullagh wrote:
> Hi Ivan,
> 
> Thanks for the other feedback re: legacybillingdata.  It had to do with the
> fact that I had an empty field on the end of my legacy data file
> 
> I have 3 more questions if you have time to reply to them
> 
> 1.   When I am importing the legacy data to my svc_acct db table with
> svc_acct.import it errors when it reaches a 3 character GID.   The 4
> character GID's seems to go in fine.   Can you give me a pointer as to where
> I might be able to change / fix this?

First of all, you didn't report the exact error message.  In the future,
report the *exact* error message you receive, with cut and paste, or your
problem will be ignored.

I can't imagine why the number of characters in the GID would cause
a problem.

> 2.  When I import passwords from my master.passwd the svc_acct.import  only
> inserts 8 characters into the password field.

You can specify the maximum username length when you run fs-setup.  To
change it afterwords, change the length of the SQL column and run
bin/dbdef-create.  Also check the usernamemin and usernamemax
configuration files, documented in htdocs/docs/config.html

>  My master.passwd has
> encrypted paswords with $ signs in them.   When I write scripts to make any
> changes I normally have to use '  ' around my '${passwd}' to copy them
> correctly.    Do you think I need to change the svc_acct.import to reflect
> this as well ?

No, Perl's interpolation semantics are different from shell.  Actually
you shouldn't be doing anything sensitive like that with shell, because
the quoting conventions are so insecure.

> 
> 3.  I have set up my customers home directorys under the following path
> structure.   /home/usr/{initial}/{username}.
> This structure is in my master.passwd.  how would you suggests I change the
> import script to catter for this? or can you suggest how this might be done

I don't think the import script needs to be modified, but you will need to
modify svc_acct.pm so that new home directories are assigned correctly. 

> 
> TIA
> 
> Freeside itself works like a charm.
> 
> regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> 

-- 
meow
_ivan