i wrote to the list about a month ago - i'm migrating our entire
company to new servers in a new location. i've tackled the data
migration with no problems - rsync is your friend - but i've run up
on a weird problem while testing the new server (which has all the
mysql db's and everything else in place - the new server is identical
to the old one, so all binaries were copied over).
i performed a pop3 connection on the command line from a remote
server to the new server to ensure authentication was working. i
tried my own login - worked fine. however, i then tried a random
customer's login - and it crashed. my account and the customer's
account are identical in all other respects. but when i entered the password:
pass theirpass
-ERR aack, child crashed
urk. so, on a hunch, on the new server i ran 'vpasswd theirpass' -
exact same password. and after doing that, it worked fine.
what am i missing here? is there some sort of 'salt' to the passwords
that needs to be reset now that they're on a new server? if so, i'm
in for some ugliness if every password has to be reset by hand.
i tried trussing (this is solaris) the process, but couldn't see what
specifically was causing the problem.
Paul Theodoropoulos
http://www.anastrophe.com
