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

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Mon Jun 28 09:25:26 EEST 2021


It's an internal tracking number.

Aki

> On 28/06/2021 09:20 Kevin N. <kevin at notscheduled.eu> wrote:
> 
>  
> Super :) .
> You mentioned the bug number. Is there a publicly available location 
> where Dovecot bugs are listed?
> Or that number is only an internal tracking number?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 
> On 28/06/2021 09:15, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> > 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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