Migration from postfixadmin to cpanel
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Hello,
We setup postfixadmin a few years ago...I believe not long after it became available. We are having to migrate our amateur webhosting outfit to new servers and are losing our ability to maintain postfixadmin. However, we want to be able to retain and migrate our user information into our new host which uses cpanel. Is there a way to pull out the user/password information in clear text from the postfixadmin mysql database? I realize the migration will probably be fairly manual since we're not really familiar with cpanel backend. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!
On 26-Sep-2007, at 19:06,Justin Walther wrote:
> user/password information in clear text from the postfixadmin mysql database?
No, you cannot recover passwords from a hash. That is the entire POINT of a hash encryption.
Hrm...thanks for the answer. Certainly we don't actually HAVE to be able to see the user's passwords...in fact we'd rather not. :) Is the password format a standard format where we could somehow import it into the new database?
Yes, the passwords are stored in md5crypt. If cpanel is also setup to use md5crypt, then you can copy the fields over, as I understand it. I have no experience with cpanel, however, and my impression is that it 'does its own thing' as much as possible, so I wouldn't be surprised if it were not compatible.
Yes, I've heard the same about cpanel - it's apparently quite intrusive to the underlying OS with it's own version/way of doing things.
I wish you luck - the chances are that you _could_ migrate over, but it may not be easy. I guess a good start would be to see if you can find a schema for the database cpanel uses, and then find out what imap/pop3 daemon's it uses.