RE: [cobalt-users] Usernames & passwords

["Jolley, Carl" <Carl.Jolley@xxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Oleg Volkov 
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 3:13 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Usernames & passwords


> Hi,
> 
> 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?

Of coursse you can put encrypted passwords back.
I have no RaQ4, so I do not know where passwords stored,
but if it is in postgresql as you mentioned, it should
be an easy SQL query for exporting such information and
another SQL to put it back to new database.
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The encrypted passwrod strings are kept in a flat file, /etc/shadow.