Re: [Dovecot] Slightly off topic question but ...

On 12/11/06, Benjamin Dabelow dabelow@tuxoft.de wrote:

Hi Marc,

Marc Perkel schrieb:

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So - here's my off topic question. I'm trying to create a PHP interface to allow user to change their password in these passwd / shadow file combos. What kind of encryption do they use and specifically what PHP command would I use to encrypt a password like the shadow file has?

These files are using standard crypt or md5crypt.

... to extend this off-topic thread:

I'm using HMAC-MD5 passwords in my passdb (the string is a HMAC-MD5 _context_, to be precise). Currently, the only known method to me for creating these contexts is to use the dovecotpw utility. I wonder if there are other possibilites (perl, PHP, ...).

Chris