moving kerberos master to new server

[Sachin Punadikar]

Pete,

Ideally it should work. But I would suggest you to take dump of KDC database
and then move on to the new hardware.

- Sachin.

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:33 PM, peter sands <peter_sands at techemail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
> Currently using kerberos 5.
> Soon I plan to migrate this server onto another hardware that will
> have a new hostname and IP, but same O/S level (aix).
>
> My first thoughts in doing this was to:
> Stop  the master server, all clients will then goto to the slave for
> authentication.
> Install the krb5 binaries, without configuring the new master.
> Tar up the /var/krb5 and /etc/krb5 directories, then untar it onto the
> new host.
> Change the kdc and krb5 conf files with the new hostname. Start the
> new master up
>
> Would that work, or is there another sequence I should follow.
>
> Thanks
> Pete.
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