[Dovecot] Authentication using native MySQL PASSWORD() function

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 15:40 +0200, Tom Sommer wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> But if I compile dovecot with --with-mysql, would it not be possible for 
> dovecot to learn the mysql-password() scheme?

I guess it shouldn't be difficult, if one of the password functions in
mysql_com.h is the same as the password() function in SQL.

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