Re: How to create a big sasldb2 db

[Nikola Milutinovic]

Pascal BOYER wrote:
Hi,
I woudl like to know if there is a way to automatiquely create (not handmade) a
big /etc/sasldb2 db if I have 500 or 1000 mailbox to create ?
Now, I juste know this handmade way:
"cyradm -u cyrus localhos" and "cm"
/etc/sasldb2 is for storing passwords, used by SASL mechanisms 
PLAIN:auxprop, DIGEST-MD5 and CRAM-MD5, possibly others (LOGIN, 
NTLM/fallback)

"cyradm" creates a mailbox on Cyrus IMAP server, regardless of 
authentication option for the user.

sasldb2 can be loaded via a script, say, you have a file with user/pass 
combo:

user1 pass1
user2 pass2
...
then you could do this:
cat pass_file.txt | while read line; do
        username=`echo $line | awk '{print $1}'`
        password=`echo $line | awk '{print $2}'`
        echo $password | saslpasswd2 -p -c $username
done
For IMAP folder mass creation, look for usefull Perl scripts.
Nix.
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