Conversion/Migration

[Rob Siemborski]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, John Alton Tamplin wrote:

> able to authenticate as the user when you convert.  What I did was a
> temporary hack to saslauthd which allowed a backdoor password to work
> for all accounts and hacked mbxcvt to accept the password on the command
> line (no user accounts on this machine to watch ps).  A wrapper script

This really shouldn't be necessary.  admins can authorize as any user
(e.g. login as user cyrus with the password for them, but get rights as
rjs3).  Most SASL mechanisms allow this, though the regular imap LOGIN
command does not.

-Rob

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