[Dovecot] Authentication using native MySQL PASSWORD() function

[Tom Sommer]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 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.

I'm no C programmer, would you mind taking a look?

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Tom SOmmer