blast wrote:
As far as I've been able to find, the only way to migrate use info from an old box running sendmail authenticating against shadow to a new system running postfix authenticating against sasldb2 is to use the auto_transition feature. Is this true, or is there perhaps a manual_transition feature that I might employ?
If you have their clear-text password, or are willing to reset the passwords, it would be trivial to write a script to do it. Otherwise, you do not have sufficient information (shadow only stores a one-way hash of the password, using crypt or md5 depending on your OS and configuration) to regenerate the clear-text password that is required.
That is what I assumed initially as well. But after looking into things just to say I did, it occurred to me that since sasl can store passwords as md5, I might be able to cut-and-paste my md5 shadow hashes into sasldb2 somehow. Might you be able to explain why this won't work (not that I've been able to get it to work of course ;)?
basem
