RE: [cobalt-users] Usernames & passwords

["Gavin Nelmes-Crocker" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > I am moving sites from one Raq4 to another one, including 
> usernames, 
> > email settings, etc etc etc. Instead of copying postgresql 
> databases 
> > and other files, I manually re-created everything through 
> the Cobalt 
> > GUI. There's one thing I cannot re-create: passwords. One thing I 
> > could do, would be to hand out new passwords to all users, but this 
> > not an option. Is there any way of finding out what a 
> user's password 
> > is? And if I can't because the passwords are encrypted, is 
> there any 
> > way of adding encrypted passwords instead of plain passwords?

As a last resort you could use john the ripper to crack all the
passwords and then create and add the users on the new box, you could at
the same time use this as a security exercise and then inform any user
you find with a weak password that they should be more security concious
not only for their own benefit but the other users of your RaQ.

Gavin