Migrating AEM Users, Groups and ACLs between instances

Migrate users and groups (If users were not imported automatically via LDAP) Package users and groups (2 separate packages) on the old system (excluding admin and anonymous OOTB users)
1. Go to CRXDE lite app /crx/de/index.jsp and log in as admin user (on the old system)
2. Go to "Tools" => "Query"
3. In the bottom "Query" box enter this query to find the admin user: /jcr:root/home/users//element(*,rep:User)[@rep:principalName="admin"]
4. Click "Execute" and copy the path of the admin user node in the results to a text file
5. Repeat step 3 with a query for anonymous user: /jcr:root/home/users//element(*,rep:User)[@rep:principalName="anonymous"]
6. Click "Execute" and copy the path of the anonymous user node in the results to a text file (so now you should have two paths, one for "admin" and one for "anonymous")
  
  For example:
  - /home/users/Q/QY5FIMXeQIbGpwZtQ3Dv – admin user on the system where I am creating the package
  - /home/users/K/Kj1406Qo9IDODc_nk5Ib – anonymous user on the system where I am creating the package
7. Go to the "Package Manager", http://host:port/crx/packmgr/index.jsp, and log in as admin
8. Create a package "users"
9. Add a filter to the package config for /home/users with these exclude rules (on the /home/users filter):
  - exclude /home/users/.*/.tokens
  - exclude /home/users/Q/QY5FIMXeQIbGpwZtQ3Dv
  - exclude /home/users/K/Kj1406Qo9IDODc_nk5Ib
  - exclude /home/users/a/admin
  - exclude /home/users/a/anonymous
  - exclude /home/users/system
  - exclude /home/users/geometrixx
  - exclude /home/users/media
  - exclude /home/users/projects
  - exclude /home/users/mac
10. Build the package
11. Download the package
12. Unzip the package zip file on your computer
```
jar -xvf users.zip META-INF/vault/filter.xml
```
1. Open the file META-INF/vault/filter.xml in a text editor
2. Add mode="merge" to the <filter ...> tag, for example:
```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<workspaceFilter version="1.0">
  <filter root="/home/users" mode="merge">
    <exclude pattern="/home/users/.*/.tokens"/>
    <exclude pattern="/home/users/Q/QY5FIMXeQIbGpwZtQ3Dv"/>
    <exclude pattern="/home/users/K/Kj1406Qo9IDODc_nk5Ib"/>
    <exclude pattern="/home/users/a/admin"/>
    <exclude pattern="/home/users/a/anonymous"/>
    <exclude pattern="/home/users/system"/>
    <exclude pattern="/home/users/geometrixx"/>
    <exclude pattern="/home/users/media"/>
    <exclude pattern="/home/users/projects"/>
    <exclude pattern="/home/users/mac"/>
  </filter>
</workspaceFilter>
```
1. Re-zip the modified package contents so it includes the change
```
jar -uvf users.zip META-INF/vault/filter.xml
```
1. Create a "groups" package that contains a filter rule /home/groups
2. Repeat steps 11-14 for the groups package
3. (Upgrade only) If performing migration to newer AEM version, then install a fresh local AEM instance of the old version(with nosamplecontent), and install the users package, and then the groups package there. Then, perform an in-place upgrade to the new version on that instance. This converts the users to the new Oak representation. After the in-place upgrade, repackage the users again to port them to your intended upgraded instance. Do the same for the user groups.
4. Install the users package on the new system
5. Install the groups package on the new system
6. If you are migrating from an older AEM version to 6.3 then go to the /useradmin UI and add the user replication-receiver to the "administrators" group
Migrate ACLs
1. If you are able to install tools (ACS Commons) to AEM then follow these steps:
  1. Download and install ACS Commons
  2. Follow the steps provided here to create an ACL package
  3. Go to http://aem-host:port/crx/packmgr/index.jsp and log in as admin
  4. Click on the ACL package
  5. Click Edit
  6. Select the Advanced tab (see screenshot below)
  7. In the AC Handling dropdown menu select Merge to avoid removing existing ACLs on the destination system. This is especially important when migrating ACLs between different versions of AEM (as it avoids removing out of the box ACLs).
2. If you are not able to install tools (ACS Commons) to AEM then follow these steps. Note that the machine where you run these commands must be Mac OS, Linux, or Windows (using Cygwin) with cURL, python and Java SDK installed.
  1. Go to http://src-aem-host:port/crx/packmgr/index.jsp and log in as admin
  2. Create a new package named "ACL-migration"
  3. Click the Edit button
  4. Select the Advanced tab and set AC Handling mode to Merge
  5. Save
  6. Build the package and download it
  7. On the file system run this command on the package to extract the META-INF/vault/filter.xml file:
```
 jar -xvf ACL-migration-1.0.zip META-INF/vault/filter.xml
```
  1. In the same directory, run this command to download a json file of the ACL paths under /content from the source instance (set the username and password and correct host):
```
 curl -u admin:admin 'http://aemhost/crx/de/query.jsp?' -G --data-urlencode '_dc=1507011481908&_charset_=utf-8&type=xpath&stmt=/jcr:root/content//element(*,rep:ACL)&showResults=true' > data.json
```
  1. Create a file generate-package-filter.py and paste the python code below inside it:
```
 import json
 from pprint import pprint

 with open('data.json') as data_file:
     data = json.load(data_file)

 print("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>")
 print("<workspaceFilter version=\"1.0\">")
 for item in data["results"]:
     print("<filter root=\"{path}\" />".format(path=item["path"]))
 print("</workspaceFilter>")
```
  1. Run the python script from the same folder where data.json was created and save the output to META-INF/vault/filter.xml (replacing the existing contents of filter.xml):
```
 python generate-packge-filter.py > META-INF/vault/filter.xml
```
  1. Use this command to update the filter.xml within the zip file:
```
 jar -uvf ACL-migration-1.0.zip META-INF/vault/filter.xml
```
  1. Upload the zip file to the source instance package manager: http://src-aem-host:port/crx/packmgr/index.jsp
  2. Click Build or Rebuild to build the package
  3. Download the package from the source AEM server
  4. Upload the package to the destination AEM server's package manager: http://dst-aem-host:port/crx/packmgr/index.jsp
  5. Click Install to install it
  6. Repeat steps 8-16 for any other paths changing the path curl command. For example, this would get the ACLs under /etc instead of /content:
```
 curl -u admin:admin 'http://aemhost/crx/de/query.jsp?' -G --data-urlencode '_dc=1507011481908&_charset_=utf-8&type=xpath&stmt=/jcr:root/etc//element(*,rep:ACL)&showResults=true' > data.json
```

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