On 30.1.2010, at 22.39, WJCarpenter wrote:
I have two populations of dovecot users. Some users have Unix accounts (with logins disabled), and so their password hashes are stored in /etc/shadow. These days, the default configuration for that is salted SHA-512. It's easy for me to change that scheme to something else if I want to, but the important fact is that I already have some users with passwords in salted SHA-512. The other population of users is purely virtual, and their password hashes are stored in a MySQL database in SHA-1 format (unsalted, but moving to salted wouldn't be a big deal). The database also has a column identifying the hash scheme, so SHA-1 isn't some assumption.
By salted SHA-512 do you mean the $6$salt$sha format that glibc uses? If so, you can use CRYPT scheme, which causes Dovecot to use crypt() function. Then assuming you're using new enough glibc, it understands it.