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

[Markus Welsch]

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