[Dovecot] PLAIN-MD5 password scheme with salt?

Steffen Weber email at steffenweber.net
Wed Feb 7 16:01:41 UTC 2007


Hello!

I'm storing passwords as MD5 hashes in a MySQL database and have 
specified "default_pass_scheme = PLAIN-MD5" in dovecot-sql.conf.

Can Dovecot append or prepend a salt to a password before hashing them? 
Because without salt the plaintext passwords can be restored from the 
MD5 hashes using rainbow tables.

Greetings
Steffen Weber


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