----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Vchkpw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 4:09 AM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Adding users
> Current accounts are in post.office on an NT machine. Software.com sold > out a couple of years ago and the new company dropped post.office. Every > day that goes by makes me more anxious. > > I've spent time looking at the passwords in post.office (and archives > and google and ...) and haven't found any way to convert. My current > plan is using a sniffer and putting usernames and passwords into a file, > and then ramming them through vaddsuser. Hi Pat, We had the same problem, when we migrated from Post.Office to vpopmail last year We had a list of original passwords that people used when they 1st signed up with our ISP. But since then many of them had changed their passwords so our list wasnt 100% accurate. In the end we enabled the password capturing features of our RADIUS server so that we could capture peoples passwords as they dialled in. This gave us a pretty complete password list within a week or two. We just set the remaining vpopmail passwords to the original password we had on file This gave us a pretty complete list, and after we migrated all the mailboxes across, we just fielded the tech calls from any remaining users and reset their passwords as appropriate. Make sure you compile vpopmail with "--enable-logging=p" and "--enable-clear-passwd=y". This will let you tech desk staff be able to view what people are typing in as their password should their authentication fail. Also they can see what actual password is stored in the vpopmail account. Michael.
