Ah yeah this
is good, too. I didn’t
think of that in my response. This way you don’t need to distribute
new
passwords.
But a small
modification to this flow,
because I don’t think you need to go so far with storing passwords.
This
is assuming, of course, you have full access to LDAP in the first place:
Generate
file with usernames (source and dest
if they are different)
Cycle
through File:
- Save userPassword entry
from LDAP1
- Reset userPassword entry
on LDAP1 to something generic
- Reset userPassword entry
on LDAP2 to the same generic
- Use imapsync to perform
the synchronization of the mailbox (using the generic password for both
IMAP boxes)
- Set the userPassword
entry on LDAP2 with the hashed value obtained from LDAP1
Email is
transferred, password doesn’t
change.
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September 01, 2005
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To: Sujit Choudhury
Cc:
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Subject: Re: imap
transfer
A
solution to this is a
script setup like this:
- external file with
username_src,known_password_src,username_dest,known_password_dest
- cycle through file
- login to ldap on src account
- save current encrypted password
- change password to SHA or MD5 enc
version of password_src above
- migrate mail with imapsync for account
-login to ldap on dest account
- change password to saved current(original)
encyrpted password. No need to reencrypt
I ended up just changing everyones password to "password" and had
them change it back after... but was heading to ward the above.
Hope this helps... Sounds funky but the above is actually not that
complex. I'm
not a shell guy so was going ot write it in PHP to be run at
commandline.
Kevin Baker
Sujit Choudhury wrote:
After
getting advice from
various people I tried imapsync, as I was moving one mailbox to another
within
cyrus environment on the same machine.
So far everything went ok; however only one problem I encountered - I
required
the passwords of both set of accounts. As I will be dealing with 400+
accounts, this might be the biggest challenge.
To make the matter worse, the accounts are authenticated via ldap.
Anyway I have done two so far and one person was overjoyed.
Thanks to everybody who came up with various suggestions.
Sujit Choudhury
Sujit Choudhury wrote:
We have
two users.
We would like to copy all the mail from one user to another. What is
the
best way to do it?
Copying file by file will not work as it would clash with existing
names like
300. etc.
Renaming is out of question as we would like to preserve both the
accounts.
Any idea will be appreciated.
Regards
Sujit
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