migrating 2.1 to 3.x, sql pass scheme, pass value?

[Noel Butler]

On 15/08/2017 22:58, voytek at sbt.net.au wrote:

> On Tue, August 15, 2017 10:27 pm, Noel Butler wrote:
> 
>> HUH?
>> Are you trying to login to mysql using the hash itself?
> 
> Noel, thanks!!
> 
> oops, misunderstood instruction...
> 
> this is better:
> 
> USER voytek at xxxxx.tld
> +OK
> PASS **********
> +OK Logged in.
> LIST
> +OK 0 messages:
> 
>> That wont work, and its not what you are supposed to be doing as evident
>> by fact you can login using plain password, you're looking in the wrong
>> area, since the database stores passwords hashed, you enter it in, in
>> plain text, the database them does its magic to convert what you entered
>> in, into a hash and does the matching in its own backend, so to speak.
> 
> what value should I have in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf
> in
> default_pass_scheme = ???
> 
> V

Use:   CRYPT 

This allows you to use whatever your system supports in your database
password fields, with modern OS's thats anything from md5 (shudder the
thought) to salted sha512 and probably more these days depending on what
other goodies your distro adds, dovecot will send it to the underlying
OS crypt function that does all the hard work. 

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Noel Butler 

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