[Dovecot] SQL field format for digest-md5?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Dec 23 21:04:35 EET 2008


On Dec 23, 2008, at 8:57 PM, Darren Pilgrim wrote:

> I'm enabling digest-md5 authentication with "user at example.com"  
> username and plain-text passwords stored in a MySQL database.  What  
> should the password field contain in order to work with digest-md5?   
> Would the following:
>
> SELECT CONCAT('{digest-md5}', MD5(CONCAT(username, '::', password)))  
> AS password ...
>
> be correct?

Don't try to do anything special. Just:

SELECT username as user, password FROM ..



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