On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 20:17 +0200, Steinar Bang wrote:
Is there any other mechanism than using passwd files with md5-hashed passwords created by dovecotpw that will support cram-md5 authentication?
You can use any "Lookup database" as listed in http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase
Has anyone created setups where the passwd databases reside in the individual users home directories?
passdb passwd-file { passwd-file = /home/%u/dovecot.passwd }
The performance might not be that great though since it'll have to open a lot of files. Also Dovecot never closes passwd files it has opened, so this method won't work if you have a lot of users (I guess a few hundred is still ok).
Is it possible to persuade dovecotpw to update the passwd databases automatically. Having to use a text editor to paste in the passwords sets a high user treshold on using the cram-md5 authentication mechanism.
Currently Dovecot is internally able to update passwords only in SQL database. But dovecotpw can't currently update even that. Maybe some day.