On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 21:26, Peter Kiem wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> > It troubles me that you think you have to do this to migrate from one
> > mail server to another though. There should be a transparent way to
> > migrate your users, but its hard to say without knowing what exactly you
> > are trying to do.
> 
> I am migrating a system where the mail accounts are system accounts with
> the password stored in /etc/shadow hence one way hashed.
> 
> The target system will be virtual users authenticating from a MySQL
> backend so I need to know the passwords to load the MySQL server tables.
> 

If you have control of the database format you may want enter clear text
in using the MD5() function, then just enter the current MD5's that you
have in the /etc/shadow file as plain text since they are already
hashed.

As somebody mentioned earlier, what if your users don't check their mail
while you are sniffing the traffic?

-- 
Caleb Groom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



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