[Dovecot] dovecot authentication failing

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 10:38 -0400, David Mehler wrote:
>  passdb {
>    driver = passwd-file
>    args = scheme=SHA512-CRYPT username_format=%n /etc/dovecot/passwd
>  }
> 
> In passwd I have:
> 
> user:{SSHA512}hbLu+pCmhmtyKEwyAs3wv3kvHD/ryr0MoXOAq3VdB7X/g8qIE/xE9BG+eI4jhFk9pTyiCltPCjZxv5/+yK1wll2LNcw=

The passdb scheme doesn't matter if all your password entries have
{scheme} prefix. It doesn't hurt either though..