On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, John Alton Tamplin 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.
To make matters worse, there is no good way to implement auto_transition in a database-independent way currently, so it isn't going to do what you want anyway. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
