A few months back I tried to move my dbman database to a different server, noticing though that this was impossible because users´ passwords didn´t work on the new server any more.

After posting here I found out that this is apparently due to the fact that the Perl crypt function behaves slightly different on different systems.

Is it possible though to alter the code in the dbman scripts before even installing dbman so that it can later be moved to any other server while preserving password portability ?

Georg

The only way would be to take out the encryption of the passwords. If you use my "password lookup" mod, it will show you how to remove the encryption.

The mod is available at
http://www.jpdeni.com/dbman/lookup.txt



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