Moving Users across different App Server versions

Hi everyone,
I need to move users and groups from a 9iAS portal to a 10gAS system which uses 10.1.2.0.2 for OID.
I was wondering if we can move users, groups into the new OID alongwith their passwords. I tried to search on forums but could not get a clear help. Has anyone done the same thing before, and would like to drop a hint or two on how to do it please?
will highly appreciate.
thanks.

Thank you very much Grant for your help. I appreciate it.
1. first method requires us to upgrade systems to 10g and then to 10.1.2.0.2. I am familiar with the first choice but have hesitation to take it.
This is a painful upgrade and we just finished upgrading, adjusting and fixing applications in our portal upgrade paths from 309 to 904, 10.1.2.0.2 and then to 10.1.4.0.0. Here for OID upgrade, we won't need the third stage but even the two takes a few days. Even backup costs 5 hours for our repository. so by the time we finish this, the list of users become old/obsolete. we need to move users for the launch phase of the upgraded portal.
2. the second method and track apparently should be fine to extract users and info. however, i haven't seen any method or procedure in the Metalink literature to keep their passwords intact. in fact, on the contrary, they suggest that the password attributes cannot be moved using ldapadd and bulkload in 10.1.2. (ref It is not possible to load orclpassword or authpassword attributes using either ldapadd or bulkload. Reference Note 401662.1 ). That leaves the choice of resetting passwords to some default pwd as one article suggests.
But our client is reluctant to email or communicate passwords to users by any method. This is the cause of this hesitation.
OID is still quite new to me and I am wondering if any other method (other than the ladapadd and bulkload) can be used to migrate users/groups without sacrificing the passwords.
thank you very much.
with kind regards,
AMN

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