[PLUG] Emaill passwd and username recovery

alan alan at clueserver.org
Thu Mar 6 18:37:02 UTC 2003


On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Billy Dimaculangan wrote:

> Currently i'm having problems regarding our email users. we are running RH
> as our mail server and Postfix as the MTA, email users were given (by the
> previous admin) an 8 character long randomly generated passwd.  my problem
> is some of the users forgot their password, but i have no list of the passwd
> given by the previous admin. as a result i give them new one.  I would like
> to ask anyone if it is possible to print or get alist form our server of all
> the users with their corresponding passwd?

If they are randomly generated, most likely the answer is "no".  (Not 
without spending a lot of CPU time guessing.)

Better off just resetting the passwords to something else and give them a 
new password.






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