addusers.pl in contrib folder of vpopmail source
- Sumith
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To: Edson Lima Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: Migrating from a Non-Qmailadmin-host to a Qmailadmin-host
> Addressed to: Edson Lima Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> ** Reply to note from Edson Lima Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed,
28 Mar 2001 17:52:33 -0300 (BRT)
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a site working with qmail+Sqwebmail very well.
> > But I decided to concentrate some Mail Servers into only one by
> > qmail+vpopmail+qmailadmin+sqwebmail.
> >
> > I'm thinking how can I do this using current passwords? I don't want to
> > tell to all my users that they have to change their passwords.
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> If they are not too big, you can create the users by hand, then hand
> edit the password files copying the old passwords into the new files.
>
> If they are too big for that, look at writing a script that runs thru
> the existing users and creates the new users using the vadduser program,
> then go thru the password files it creates and replace the passwords
> with the old ones.
>
> Either way, when you are done changing the vpasswd files in the
> individual domain directories remove the vpasswd.cdb files. If the cdb
> file does not exist vpopmail will re-create them with the updated
> passwords.
>
> Maybe someone will tell us about an existing script to do the job. For
> my couple dozen mail users I just did it by hand.
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>
> Rick Widmer
> Internet Marketing Specialists
> http://www.developersdesk.com
