Re: [Dovecot] Trying nonplaintext mech with LDAP password-hash

On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 00:31 +0200, dovecotlist@encambio.com wrote:

I've already verified that this works correctly with plaintext (CLEARTEXT in slapd.conf), but I really want to store the passwords in LDAP using some hash. Why doesn't LDAP-MD5 work as advertised?

Because it's impossible to support it. Read http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/Mechanisms

What did the author mean by 'properly hashed passwords'? Thanks.

I made it a link now to http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/PasswordSchemes#Non-plaintext_authent...