[Dovecot] Cannot authenticate with new Red Hat/Fedora SHA512
John Cooper
johnpcooper at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 1 17:31:20 EET 2011
RHEL6 and Fedora 14 use an improved password algorithm of SHA512 on a
brand new install of the OS (:$6$ in shadow file).
cat /etc/shadow
user1:$6$<salt>$<password>:15006:0:99999:7:::
I cannot get dovecot to authenticate. I've search for a way to change
the default algorithm in dovecot and found you should use CRYPT but I
don't know what to put in the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf or
/etc/dovecot/conf.d/*
Can this be done or do you need to use an alternate password file with MD5?
Thanks, John.
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