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]> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list