RE: [cobalt-users] Password database

["Carrie Bartkowiak" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

||>>> 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.

When I moved from a RaQ4i to a RaQ4r last week, I did it this way:
Browser open on old server, Browser open on new server. Making sure I got
all of the email accounts for each domain. I used a generic password for the
ones I didn't know.
Then I took the password file (/etc/shadow) and copied the password from the
user's entry line on the old server's file to the same user's entry line on
the new server's file. (Plain-text editor, Ultra-Edit)
Then just uploaded the file back to the new server and crossed my fingers...
worked like a charm.
Plenty of users on there that my clients made and I have no idea what their
passwords are, but they all still work fine.


Carrie Bartkowiak
Administrator, All @bout Choice
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