Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi:
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
But that includes passwd and shadow, and I thought they couldn't be used, even with md5 hashing of the passwords, because the md5 hash used was different to the one of cram-md5?
If I can use the normal passwd/shadow of the system, that would be exactly what I want.
Has anyone created setups where the passwd databases reside in the individual users home directories?
passdb passwd-file { passwd-file = /home/%u/dovecot.passwd }
Ok. Thanx.
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).
Ok, the machine will only everl serve 3-10 users (it's my home LAN server), so that would probably never be a problem.
But if I actually can use the normal passwd of the machine, then all of this is a non-issue.
Thanx!