[Dovecot] Cannot authenticate with new Red Hat/Fedora SHA512

[Pascal Volk]

On 02/01/2011 04:31 PM John Cooper wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 


You forgot to show your `doveconf -n` output.


Regards,
Pascal
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