[Dovecot] Authentication using native MySQL PASSWORD() function

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 15:00 +0200, Tom Sommer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a little problem, I need to adapt a setup that currently uses the 
> native MySQL PASSWORD() function to encrypt passwords for e-mail accounts.
> 
> I plan on using Dovecot with SQL to authenticate on my server, is there 
> a password scheme that fits this authentication method?

Not really.. I guess you could use pam_mysql to check it. Or even a
checkpassword script if that won't work. But using it directly as passdb
sql would require Dovecot to know the mysql-password() scheme.

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