[BUG] doveadm / mail-crypt: Error when setting new password for a user key

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Mon Jun 28 09:15:13 EEST 2021


Oh duh. Yeah. It's a bug. It's a known bug, DOP-2233. Lets see if we could get this fixed finally.

Aki

> On 28/06/2021 09:12 Kevin N. <kevin at notscheduled.eu> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hi Aki,
> 
> Yes. Without -O the following error is thrown:
> 
> result: dcrypt_key_load_private(...) failed: password missing
> 
> Which makes sense since you need the old password for setting a new 
> password for the user key.
> 
> BTW: the behavior is the same on 2.3.15 too.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 
> On 28/06/2021 08:46, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> > 
> >> On 20/06/2021 01:22 Kevin N. <kevin at notscheduled.eu> wrote:
> >>
> >>   
> >> Dovecot version: 2.3.14
> >>
> >> When setting a new password for a user key you have the option to prompt
> >> the user for the old and the new password, instead of providing them as
> >> parameters (using -N and -O instead of -n and -o).
> >>
> >> However, running:
> >> 	doveadm mailbox cryptokey password -u user at domain -N -O
> >>
> >> produces an error instead of prompting the user for the old and the new
> >> password.
> >>
> >> The error is:
> >> 	password: option requires an argument -- 'O'
> >>
> >>
> >> You can work around this by providing a dummy input for -O which seems
> >> to be properly ignored in the end, but it would be nice to not throw any
> >> errors since -O should not expect an argument.
> >>
> >> Regards.
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Did you try leaving -O/-o out?
> > 
> > Aki
> >


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