Export user und user acl via script in CQ5

Question

we want to set up a new Author environemt and wanted to export all users and acl from an existing author to the new one. Is there an simple way to do this? No LDAP available.

Thanks and Regards Patrick

Edit:

Found this http://www.wemblog.com/2011/11/how-to-create-package-based-on-xpath-in.html and could export all Users and reimport them on a fresh system.

Answer 1

Users and groups can be activated from Author to Publish - You could try configuring the old Author to replicate to the new author, then using the Tree Activation to push the users to the new instance.

Answer 2

My colleague Jason reminded me of this: users and groups are content like everything else. So you can make a content package from all or part of the /home JCR node.