[Dovecot] BLF-CRYPT passwords

[Patrick Domack]

If they where generated using crypt, why not tell dovecot to use crypt also?


Quoting KT Walrus <kevin at my.walr.us>:

> I’m using the Dovecot Enterprise Edition on Centos 6.5, but Blowfish  
> password hashes don’t seem to work.  What can I do to enable  
> Blowfish hashes for passwords?  Maybe I don’t have my installation  
> configured properly?
>
> Note that I really want to use the existing Blowfish hashes in my  
> MySQL database for Dovecot Authentication.  The hashes are generated  
> by PHP crypt() that has Blowfish support built-in.  I looked at  
> PHP’s sources, and PHP uses crypt_blowfish.c from  
> http://www.openwall.com/crypt/.  This code is in the public domain  
> and could easily be used by Dovecot to support Blowfish passwords on  
> all platforms (if Dovecot doesn’t already support Blowfish on all  
> platforms).
>
> Kevin