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

[Jeremy Rumpf]

On Friday 21 March 2003 04:12 am, Markus Welsch wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there a way to use passwords from /etc/shadow from another system - like
> putting that file on the server and accessing it through PAM ?
>
> The best solution would be to store all user account data in an SQL
> database, since I'll be storing the new users there ... the problem with
> the old ones is that I do not have the passwords for these. As old POP3
> server I used  vm-pop3d. As new one I plan to use Cyrus 2.2a (since the
> virtual domain support in it which I require). The only solution besides
> using PAM I can think of could be to use something like tcpdump ...
>
> Any help ?
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Markus

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.

Jeremy