From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Apr 21 17:16:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from aurora-borealis.phear.org (phear.org [194.177.32.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 625B737B404 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 17:16:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kewl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aurora-borealis.phear.org with ESMTP id g3M0Fch15649; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 02:15:38 +0200 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 02:15:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Tristan X-X-Sender: kewl@aurora-borealis.phear.org To: marcus@redcentre.com Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Migrating mail servers In-Reply-To: <3CC35067.3642.28374DD@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 marcus@redcentre.com wrote: > Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 23:51:03 +1000 > From: marcus@redcentre.com > To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Migrating mail servers > > Hi, Hello, > I'm just looking for some advice re migrating a mail > server from a 3.4 machine to 4.5. Is it as possible > to simply transfer the passwd file and ftp mail > boxes? Don't use directly the passwd, use the master.passwd/password database instead. But this is not a problem. An interesting thing is that MD5 support is installed in FreeBSD 4.5, so it will make updated passwords more difficult to crack. Regards, Tristan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message