On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Chad Walstrom wrote: > Raymond Norton wrote: >> Outside of /etc/passwd, what other files would a person move over so users >> could access the mail boxes on the new server > > You're asking about a UNIX/Linux style migration, then? Tim is going to > have to obtain the user account information one way or another. It's > not likely he'll be able to preserve passwords, so he'll have to > generate a list of new passwords. In the past, I've modified qpopper to log usernames and passwords to a flatfile. I did this when migrating 1000's of accounts between servers that used different password hash schemes (or some other obstacle that prevents just copying passwd over, like different system accounts). You just turn it on for a few days (however long it takes for all accounts to have logged in), and then take it back out when you're done. You'll have a text file of username<whitespace>password, which you should be able to munge into the new password file pretty easily. I've never saved the code, but it's VERY simple (at least in qpopper). _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list