Support for multiple passwords?
Reindl Harald
h.reindl at thelounge.net
Wed Mar 18 19:46:02 UTC 2015
Am 18.03.2015 um 20:40 schrieb Conrad Kostecki:
> Hi!
> Currently, the passwords are stored in plaintext for my dovecot, as I am
> still using cram-md5 AND digest-md5.
> I have still to offer that, as I have some deprecated clients,
> therefore, I am unable to hash at least those passwords for that accounts.
>
> I've found on the Wiki:
>> In future it's possible that Dovecot could support multiple passwords
>> in different schemes for a single user.
>
> Is there any news about this? Are there still any plans to support this
> maybe in future?
> For my understanding, that would solve my problem, that I could define a
> password in both schemes (cram and digest) and don't have to use
> plaintext password?
if you would read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRAM-MD5 and understand
how CRAM-MD5 works you would know that you just can't store cram because
the whole purpose is that it changes all the time
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