[Dovecot] SHA1

Marco Herrn marco at mherrn.de
Thu Dec 9 22:58:54 EET 2004


On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 01:27:53AM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 9.12.2004, at 01:12, Marco Herrn wrote:
> 
> >So the problem seems to be that dovecot is assuming base64 while mine
> >are in hex. Is there a way to force dovecot to using hex encoded
> >passwords?
> 
> Not without changing source code.

Well, I don't know C++, so I won't even try that. :-)

> But this problem is getting annoying. I think I'm going to change it so 
> that you can append :hex or :base64 to any scheme with the default 
> being the same as it was before.

Do you have any plan, when this feature will be available then?
I now have the problem that I am using exim as MTA that expects SHA1
hash hex encoded and so it wouldn't help in my case to change the
password scheme. And I do not really want to include both types of
passwords in my database....

Regards
Marco



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