[Freedombox-pkg-team] Bug#923163: freedombox: Please implement user backup and restore

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Package: freedombox
Version: 19.1

At the moment, if you want to migrate from one instanace of the
freedombox to another, for example to replace the hardware, there is no
way to migrate the users too.

The backup do not provide backup of the users, and the restore do not
handle recovery of users.

Please implement backup of restore of users.

I found a copy of user information in LDAP, it can be extracted using
slapcat.  I also found a copy in /var/lib/plinth/plinth.sqlite3, which
can be extracted using sqlite3 and the ".dump auth_user" statement.  But
unfortunately, this is not enough.  I tried, and got a 500 when trying
to edit a user imported this way.

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen