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Nathan Brindle <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 6 Jun 2006 12:12:11 -0400
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The postmaster command to check a user's password is

PWC QUERY userid@host

And if you want to see the passwords in the log, ie, for debugging 
purposes, set

DEBUG_SHOW_PW=1

in the site configuration file (export for unix of course) and 
restart the server.

Nathan

At 11:41 AM 6/6/2006 -0400, Paul Karagianis wrote:
>On 6 Jun 2006, at 11:27, Randy Klumph wrote:
>
> >In the old days, user passwords were visible in the log files and could be
> >retrieved. Now they are [redacted]. I seem to recall that it was mentioned
> >that the password could be still retrieved by the site administrator but
> >the details are fuzzy.
>
>In the systems I've used - VM370, Alpha and Solaris - you can search/grep/
>whatever the signup.* files.  They're on the Listserv MAIN or HOME dir and
>you may have one or 30 or more depending on your site subscriber base.

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