migrating from sendmail/shadow to sasl on new box

[blast]

John Alton Tamplin wrote:

> blast wrote:
>
>> As far as I've been able to find, the only way to migrate use info 
>> from an old box running sendmail authenticating against shadow to a 
>> new system running postfix authenticating against sasldb2 is to use 
>> the auto_transition feature.  Is this true, or is there perhaps a 
>> manual_transition feature that I might employ?
>
>
> If you have their clear-text password, or are willing to reset the 
> passwords, it would be trivial to write a script to do it.  Otherwise, 
> you do not have sufficient information (shadow only stores a one-way 
> hash of the password, using crypt or md5 depending on your OS and 
> configuration) to regenerate the clear-text password that is required.


That is what I assumed initially as well.  But after looking into things 
just to say I did, it occurred to me that since sasl can store passwords 
as md5, I might be able to cut-and-paste my md5 shadow hashes into 
sasldb2 somehow.  Might you be able to explain why this won't work (not 
that I've been able to get it to work of course ;)?

basem