Changing Password Schemes

[Christian Kivalo]

On 2016-05-02 11:32, Carl Jeptha wrote:
> password_query = \
>       SELECT username AS USER, \
>     IF(cryptpwd IS NULL OR cryptpwd='', CONCAT('{PLAIN}',clearpwd),
> cryptpwd) AS PASSWORD, \
>     '/var/vmail/%d/%n' as userdb_home, \
>       'maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n' as userdb_mail, 150 as userdb_uid, 8 
> as
> userdb_gid \
>       FROM mailbox \
>       WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1'

You have a right parenthesis after clearpwd in your sql statement
   CONCAT('{PLAIN}',clearpwd),cryptpwd)

>   user_query = \
>   SELECT '/var/vmail/%d/%n' as home, 'maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n' as 
> mail, \
>   150 AS uid, 8 AS gid, concat('dirsize:storage=', quota) AS quota \
>   FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1'
> 
> Above is what I have done, but still getting an error:
> 
> May  2 05:26:03 |****** dovecot: auth-worker(3442): Error:
> sql(user at domain.tld,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): Password query must return a
> field named 'password'
> 
> For testing purposes I put the query in PHPMyAdmin and it complains 
> this
> (notice it drops "PASSWORD", but shows it in the query:
> #1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that
> corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use 
> near '\
>     IF(cryptpwd IS NULL OR cryptpwd='', CONCAT('{PLAIN}',clearpwd),
> cryptpwd) as ' at line 1
The PHPMyAdmin error message shows the relevant part to inspect.

-- 
Christian Kivalo