[Dovecot] Password encoding

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Mar 12 20:53:16 EET 2007


On 12.3.2007, at 17.14, David Mills wrote:

> The problem is that some of the passwords I need to transfer (all  
> from /etc/shadow files) are md5 encoded,
> and when I put {md5-crypt} in front of the password to force the  
> scheme, dovecot answers :"Unknown password scheme md5-crypt".

In 1.0.rc15 it was still called "MD5" (and it works in later versions  
too, it's just that the name was a bit wrong so I changed the default  
name).
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