[Dovecot] cram-md5 and users maintaining their own passwords?

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:

> On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 20:17 +0200, Steinar Bang wrote:

>> Is it possible to persuade dovecotpw to update the passwd databases
>> automatically.  Having to use a text editor to paste in the passwords
>> sets a high user treshold on using the cram-md5 authentication
>> mechanism.

> You can of course create your own wrapper script to dovecotpw to do
> that..

That I can, but I wanted to make sure I didn't overlook something.

Another thing is that I'd rather avoid making a script be sudo root, if
I can (but of course splitting the passwd files would be a way to avoid
that).