authentification question (passwords stored in /etc/shadow) => sasl (conversion)

[Markus Welsch]

> This may be a long shot, passwords in /etc/shadow (depending on your system), 
> may be unix crypt or md5 hashes. Perhaps you could setup ldap, and transplant 
> the password hashes into the userPassword attribute. I've never tried it 
> personally, but it may be worth a shot.

MD5 hashes are used if I'm not wrong here!