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[Muhammed Sameer <address@concealed>]

salaam,

Please backup your Db before trying this.. need I tell you this ?

Regards,
Muahammed Sameer

--- On Thu, 7/16/09, Muhammed Sameer <address@concealed> wrote:

> From: Muhammed Sameer <address@concealed>
> Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Problem with authentication an password recovery 
> (please help)
> To: address@concealed, "Maykel Moya" <address@concealed>
> Date: Thursday, July 16, 2009, 4:57 AM
> 
> Salaam,
> 
> * This is exactly the problem that I faced when migrating
> sympa from one box to another.
> 
> * The problem is also discussed on this list a few months
> back with the subject 'reset password returns illegible
> charecters'
> 
> * the following is an extract from the solution
> <snip>
> Salaam,
> 
> * I finally found a turn around for the password problem
> 
> * Just set all the user passwords in the database as ''
> (completely blank out that field) and then asked all my
> users to do a forgot password
> 
> * Inefficient but I had to provide a solution before Monday
> <smile>
> 
> </snip>
> 
> Regards,
> Muhammed Sameer
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Thu, 7/16/09, Maykel Moya <address@concealed>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Maykel Moya <address@concealed>
> > Subject: [sympa-users] Problem with authentication an
> password recovery (please help)
> > To: address@concealed
> > Date: Thursday, July 16, 2009, 4:17 AM
> > I'm migrating a sympa installation
> > from a Debian box to a Ubuntu one.
> > In both server Sympa version is 5.3.4. I did copy
> > /var/lib/sympa,
> > restored a dump of the database and copy
> > /etc/sympa/sympa.conf and
> > /etc/sympa/wwsympa.conf over the new server.
> > 
> > I can see the lists, and the mail are correctly
> delivered
> > but I can't
> > login. I run sympa in debug mode and see nothing rare.
> The
> > worse
> > problem is that when I request a password I got the
> message
> > with an
> > intelligible URL inside. I think it has something to
> do
> > with encoding
> > of ¿something? but I need to get Sympa running in the
> new
> > box and
> > don't know where to start.
> > 
> > Find attached an image of the url sent by Sympa.
> > 
> > Please help.
> > 
> > Thanks very much
> > maykel
> >
> 
> 
> 
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