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

[John Cooper]

On 02/01/2011 03:46 PM, Pascal Volk wrote:
> 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
# 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.35.10-74.fc14.i686 i686 Fedora release 14 (Laughlin)
mbox_write_locks = fcntl
passdb {
   driver = pam
}
ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
userdb {
   driver = passwd
}