Moving or "upgrading" from MD5 to SSHA512

[Nick Edwards]

In MySQL we use
default_pass_scheme = CRYPT
Assuming this is not a 10yo box, and your libs are modern, this allow
for md5/shaxxx/whatever

Dont touch postgresql so never bothered to look, but I guess it
accepts the same parameter.


On 1/10/15, Jyri Hovila [Turvamies.fi] <jyri.hovila at turvamies.fi> wrote:
> Hello, world!
>
> I have a long-running Dovecot & Postfix installation using PostgreSQL
> back-end.
>
> Until now I've been using MD5 hashing but would like to "upgrade" to the
> salted SSHA512.
>
> Is there a way to configure Dovecot so that it would automatically detect
> the type of the hash stored in the database, so that users who have changed
> their password (and thus being hashed with SHA512) and users still having an
> MD5 hash would both be able to authenticate at the same time?
>
> Yours,
>
> Jyri
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