migration to SASLv2 - how?

[manitu at mefisto.net]

On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 12:05:19PM +0200, Olaf Zaplinski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to migrate my system from 1.5.27 (Debian package) to 2.1.13 
> (tarball). The second step after compiling fails:
> 
> binky:/usr/src/cyrus-sasl-2.1.13/utils# ./dbconverter-2
> 
> This program will take the sasldb file specified on the
> command line and convert it to a new sasldb file in the default
> location (usually /etc/sasldb). It is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that you
> backup sasldb before allowing this program to run
> 
> We are going to convert /etc/sasldb and our output will be in /etc/sasldb2
> 
> Press return to continue
> 
> Error opening password file /etc/sasldb
> 
> 

I just ran in the same error yesterday:


found the solution at 
http://www.irbs.net/internet/info-cyrus/0206/0637.html

hope this helps

Christian