Simon Josefsson wrote:
> 
> Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > The biggest (only?) downside for existing installations is that any
> > secrets stored in sasldb would have to migrated to the new format.  This
> > will require resetting all of the users passwords because they can not
> > be extracted from the old sasldb (unless you have been using my APOP
> > patch).
> 
> Is it possible to extract users' passwords from the new format, so
> that we don't have to experience this problem again?

The users' passwords are stored in plaintext in SASL v2, so this problem
shouldn't arise again.  We have moved away from different secret for
each mechanism.

Ken
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