[Dovecot] Dovecot/Django authentication

[Joseph Tam]

Thomas Johnson <tj at terramar.net> writes:

> We've got an application in django that has passwords stored in both
> sha1 and pbkdf2_sha256 form.  We need dovecot to be able to
> authenticate against the django database (we can't modify django to
> store passwords in dovecot's form, I'm afraid). 
> 
> Has anyone done a dovecot authentication plugin to support these
> password forms (and/or any other forms that django supports)?

You can always fall back on

 	http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/CheckPassword

to implement any wild and woolly scheme you got going.

Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>