On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Daniel Gustavo Prez wrote:

I want to update a mail server but i don´t have the passwords of my users, anybody can tell me how i could to obtain this passwords ??? If you just update an existing installation, you just have to save /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. You can't retreive the clear text passwords of the users, because only a hash is stored and not the real password. If the new mailserver is a major change to your IT, so why should the users not get new passwords?

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