[Dovecot] Authentication using native MySQL PASSWORD() function

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 17:02 +0200, Jakob Hirsch wrote:
> Maybe it would be even better/cleaner to be able to use something like
> 
> SELECT userid AS user, 1 AS password_ok FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' AND
> password = PASSWORD('%p')

Actually I think this already works:

SELECT userid AS user, NULL as password WHERE userid = '%u' AND password = PASSWORD('%p')

NULL passwords accept any password. This was needed for proxying but
works nicely elsewhere too.

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