Thanks - we'll give that a try and see what happens. I think I skipped over that when I was looking through the tool list on the ASSumption (;)) that it was for migrating ALL the domains to an external DB, rather than selected domains.
Regards, Simon > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Hebert > Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 2:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Migrating users to external > database - with passwords intact > > You might want to try the Externalizer app on the utility page. > > http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/helperapps.html > > > Eric H�bert > Network Admin > Intrasoft Solutions Int'l > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Dodd > Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 2:45 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [IMail Forum] Migrating users to external database - > with passwords intact > > With reference to this KBA: > http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-20020821-DM01.htm > > I've searched the list archive and the Ipswitch support site, > and the above link is the closest to actually resolving the problem. > > We have an I-Mail 8.05 mail server; most of the users are > where they should be, in an external database. However, a > recent audit has identified about 25 domains - a total of no > more than about 150 users, tops - which have been set to use > the I-Mail internal database. For obvious reasons, we want to > migrate them over to the external DB. > > The problem is, the KBA linked above explicitly warns that it > will *not* take the user passwords with it. However, this is > exactly what we *want* to do; we want to have the process > transparent to end users, and with as little administrative > overhead as possible (i.e. the users aren't really going to > want me calling them to get a new password from them, and I > don't really fancy spending an afternoon changing 150 > passwords by hand if there's a better way to get around > this). That means, AFAIK, finding a way to pull the existing > passwords, in clear text, out of the registry. > > Extracting the users from the registry hive poses no problem, > but obviously the passwords are hashed - so my question is, > is there any tool, utility or process which would allow us to > unhash the passwords or by any other means, migrate the > users, with passwords intact, to an external SQL database? > > Regards, > > Simon Dodd, > Joink Internet > > ------------------------ > "I always enjoy learning, although I confess to not always > enjoy being taught" - Sir Winston Churchill > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
