Re: [tlug] Converting Berkeley DB to GNU dbm

["Shimpei Yamashita" <shimpei@example.com>]

On 9/3/2002, "A. Sajjad Zaidi" <sajjad@example.com> wrote:

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>An old server has qpopper setup so that passwords are stored in
>'Berkeley DB' format. Now I want to transfer these passwords to a new
>server with a newer version of qpopper (4.0.4).
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>The file this new version created shows up as a
>'GNU dbm 1.x or ndbm database, little endian' file. Does anyone know of
>a way to convert the format of the old one to this new one?

If you can't find a customized tool, try hacking one together using the
DB_File and GDBM_File modules in perl. Tie the old password file to a
DB_File hash, tie the new password to a GDBM_File hash, do a
foreach(keys())
through the old file and populate the new file. Should work--in theory,
assuming that things like password encoding format haven't changed.

Shimpei.


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Shimpei Yamashita
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