Re: [Dovecot] Any way to test a master user's password?

Google the terms "Dictionary Attack" and "Rainbow Table"  perhaps ?  ;-)

From: Axel Luttgens AxelLuttgens@swing.be To: Dovecot Mailing List dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Friday, 16 August 2013, 13:55 Subject: [Dovecot] Any way to test a master user's password?

Hello,

Is there any way to easily check a master user's password, for itself, without having to refer to another user or to weak the security by allowing master users to log in for themselves?

For example, this works:

    # doveadm auth test 'someuser*masteruser' Password: passdb: someuser*masteruser auth succeeded

but depends on the existence of another user, and is thus contingent and unnecessarily heavy.

TIA, Axel