[Dovecot] Problems in auth when switching from PLAIN-MD5

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Jun 3 14:58:53 EEST 2011


On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 17:41 -0300, Eduardo Casarero wrote:
> Hi, i am running dovecot 2.0.11 (with mysql backend) and until now using
> PLAIN-MD5 as pass default_pass_scheme everything was working fine. However i
> wanted to change the pass_scheme to something stronger than plain-md5, so i
> started by reading the wiki.
> 
> I found this: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/ConvertPasswordSchemes
> 
> But when i comment out "default_pass_scheme" and 

You don't need to comment it out. Although I guess then the default is
still PLAIN-MD5.

> i create the pass with the
> {SHA256.hex} prefix i see this in the logs:
> 
> auth: Error: sql(xxx at xxxxxx.com,10.21.1.1): Password in passdb is not in
> expected scheme SHA256.hex

Show an example of a stored password?




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