RE: [cobalt-users] Password database

[Sales - Way to the Web <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > On RAQ3 password database, is there a way for me to know all
> > the passwords created by my clients for their sites/e-mails?
> > I would be migrating my RAQ3 sites to a new server and wouldn't
> > want my clients to recreate all their e-mails.
> 
> No. And hopefully there never will be; would *you* want any 
> sysadmin to
> be able to get your password?
> 
> However, it occurs to me that you could copy the encrypted password
> without knowing it, and things would still work the same. Can anyone
> validate this?

I can, it works fine. This is how we moved users when we migrated from a
RaQ2 to a RaQ3 many moons ago.

The crypt() function is very portable with the notable exception of some BSD
distributions as we've found with product implementations. So Linux to Linux
should be no problem whatsoever.

Regards,
Jonathan Michaelson

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