How to create a big sasldb2 db

[Pascal BOYER]

Selon Nikola Milutinovic <Nikola.Milutinovic at ev.co.yu>:

> Pascal BOYER wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I woudl like to know if there is a way to automatiquely create (not
> handmade) a
> > big /etc/sasldb2 db if I have 500 or 1000 mailbox to create ?
> >
> > Now, I juste know this handmade way:
> >
> > "cyradm -u cyrus localhos" and "cm"
>
> /etc/sasldb2 is for storing passwords, used by SASL mechanisms
> PLAIN:auxprop, DIGEST-MD5 and CRAM-MD5, possibly others (LOGIN,
> NTLM/fallback)
>
> "cyradm" creates a mailbox on Cyrus IMAP server, regardless of
> authentication option for the user.
>
> sasldb2 can be loaded via a script, say, you have a file with user/pass
> combo:
>
> user1 pass1
> user2 pass2
> ...
>
> then you could do this:
>
> cat pass_file.txt | while read line; do
> 	username=`echo $line | awk '{print $1}'`
> 	password=`echo $line | awk '{print $2}'`
> 	echo $password | saslpasswd2 -p -c $username
> done
>
> For IMAP folder mass creation, look for usefull Perl scripts.
>
> Nix.
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Hi Nix,

Thank you for your solution.

It's exactely what I was looking for !

Thank a lot

Pascal


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