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[Russ Kepler <address@concealed>]

I'm moving a Sympa 5.4.6 (working) to a new install of 6.1.4.  The move is 
complicated in that it's from a Mandriva installation (where Sympa files are 
often found in unexpected places) to a Kubuntu install.  Some odd issues were 
found in the kubuntu install and it took several tries to get sympa installed 
with the provided .deb and scripts, but seems to have completed installation. 
 
I moved the mysql database files across and ran the sympa.pl --update and it 
seemed to finish OK (no reported errors).  After that I tried to login 
through 
the web interface and it seems to think that my password has changed. 

I copied the right cookie value across, verifying with a cut-n-paste between 
sessions so there's no real chance of error.  The cookie value is the same as 
from the previous install.  

Is there some chance that the passwords were somehow corrupted in the move 
process?