Re: [Dovecot] passdb: password contains illegal chars question

On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 11:21 +0200, Torsten Krah wrote:

Hi,

some question about passdb backend:

I'll receive this (using dovecot 2.0.13, pgsql passdb backend) for some users:

mail dovecot: auth: passdb(account-username,127.0.0.1): Attempted login with password having illegal chars

Password schema ist crypt-md5. So what "chars" does dovecot not like (why?) and whats the preferred way to fix this?

There are very few illegal characters for password. They're all control characters, so no real user should be using them: \001, TAB, CR and LF.