Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Shelley Waltz wrote: > >> I am installing a new postfix-cyrus mail server. >> I currently have cyrus-imap 1.6.24 authing PLAIN >> from /etc/shadow. >> I wish to migrate the passwords(md5) from the shadow file to >> a mysql database and use this to auth PLAIN using TLS. >> Is there a script available to do so - to migrate the users >> from the shadow file and create the records for mysql authentication? >> I did search, but found nothing. > > First, I'd strongly suggest that you upgrade to a recent version of > Cyrus, either 2.1.16 or 2.2.3. To do this, you'll need a recent > version of SASL (I'd suggest 2.1.17). Then, you just configure > Cyrus/SASL to authentication plaintext from /etc/shadow and have it > autotransition passwords into the SQL auxprop plugin.
That works? Cool! Will that store plaintext passwords in the SQL database, or will it store them encrypted? -- Ted Cabeen http://www.pobox.com/~secabeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check Website or Keyserver for PGP/GPG Key BA0349D2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." -F. Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Human kind cannot bear very much reality."-T.S.Eliot [EMAIL PROTECTED]
