Moving cyrus from one machine to another

[Andy Saxena]

Su Li said:
> Hi Andy,
>
> I saw the discussion and knew that you have solved the problem. What I did is
> mirror the disk and put the mirrored disk on the new machine and change the IP
> address and host name to the new machine. It looks simple.
>
> But I couldn't login as cyrus in the new machine any more. It seems the
> sasl2.db doesn't have a user named cyrus. Is that because I changes IP and
> host name? Do you know how to recreate the cyrus user? I tried to remove the
> sasl2.db and rerun Cyrus Imap, the system said, failed to locate sasl2.db. Do
> you know how to recreate a sasl2.db?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Su

Su,

I think we would need more information to help you out. What kind of OS are you
using? Is the root partition located on the disk you mirrored?

Ordinarily, you shouldn't need to setup the 'cyrus' user with a password. Log in
as root and su to cyrus - of course, some will say don't use root if you don't
have to, but I think using root to su to cyrus works just fine.

Once we know more information about your setup, we can figure it out.

-Andy