Thread: migrating from shadow passwords to mysql database
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Old 29th February 2008, 13:33
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The passwords are the problem because they are saved in encrypted form (crypt or md5) in /etc/shadow. This means you can't convert them into any other format, but would have to store them in the MySQL database as they are. Then your mail server would have to authenticate against these passwords.
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