Save user passwords in clear text
Michael Fox
news at mefox.org
Sat Aug 6 02:39:41 UTC 2016
> Is it possible to save user passwords as clear text through dovecot? I am
> currently using MD5 passwords and I allow only "plain and login”
> mechanisms but I want to switch my database to clear text as this will
> give me the ability to use more mechanisms such as CRAM-MD5. Is this
> possible?
I'm not sure if this is what you mean by saving passwords "through dovecot". But here's how to save a clear-text password when the passdb scheme is not plaintext.
Use the {PLAIN} prefix. Example:
10-auth.conf:
passdb {
driver = passwd-file
args = scheme=cram-md5 username_format=%n /path/passdb
}
/path/passdb:
username:{PLAIN}secret
User "username" can log in with password "secret"
Michael
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