Em 14/02/2010 04:53, tomas@tuxteam.de escreveu:
No, just let Dovecot's algorithm do the generation (and later checking) of the password? (I might be misunderstanding your problem, though).
unfortunelly i cant do that. I have my own accounts admin system, written in PHP, which does mail management (creating accounts, changing passwords) ... so i'm afraid i'll have to know exactly how to generate them in a way dovecot is able to handle too.
from sources on src/auth i can find some interesting informations:/* format: <SHA1 hash><salt> */
and
#define SSHA256_SALT_LEN 4
so the salt really seems to be 4-byte (which in fact are 8 when watching in hexadecimal), the exact difference on dovecotpw non-salted and salted generated passwords.
So it would be enough to generate the password, SHA256 salted, and store the salt as the last 8 hexadecimal digits ?
SHA256 hash is 64-characteres in hexadecimal, which can be base64 encoded for being stored shorter. SHA256 salt is 8-characters in hexadecimal, which should be added to the end of the SHA256 hash
so stored password would be:
{SSHA256.hex}GENERATEDSALTEDHASH+GENERATEDSALT
or having the GENERATEDSALTEDHASH+GENERATEDSALT base64 encoded and stored as:
{SSHA256.b64}BASE64ENCODEDGENERATEDSALTEDHASH+GENERATEDSALT
is that OK ?
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