3 Jan
2005
3 Jan
'05
9:55 p.m.
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 19:59 +0100, Adam Pordzik wrote:
Peter Clark schrieb:
After I found out that {CRYPT} doesn't support passwords longer than 8characters, I decided to switch over to MD5 for user passwords in my LDAP database. However, while I have no problem with Postfix + SASL, Dovecot fails to authenticate.
I think you just found out, that 3DES (?) only supports password with not more that 8 characters.
...although that limitation is not inherent. In fact, 3des is normally an encryption algorithm, but encryption algorithms can easily be adapted for use as hashing algorithms.
Same for des.