The script I sent you should do the job of populating your cryptpwd column with a SHA512-CRYPT version of the clearpwd column. The only reason why you would bother with a perl script is to get a better quality salt from /dev/urandom If you don't care so much about the quality of the salt, you can just run this single query. Make a backup of your database first!!
UPDATE mailbox set cryptpwd = ENCRYPT(clearpwd, CONCAT('$6$',sha(RAND()))) WHERE cryptpwd IS NULL OR cryptpwd=' ';
Here you are using MySQL's RAND() function to generate salt. It will do the minimum job of making the resulting encrypted password not equal to a SHA512 of the password itself, but the salt isn't very random. So the perl script I sent you reads 12 bytes of better quality random data from /dev/urandom and uses that. This means that if your database gets stolen it will be harder to decrypt the passwords.
On 05/03/2016 11:58 AM, Carl Jeptha wrote:
Steffen, If you can point me in the direction as to how to convert a column of clear text passwords to SHA512-CRYPT I will be happy to follow it and close this query, I only came here because I had spent almost two weeks trying to make the dovecot wiki work and thought someone would point out the mistakes I had made.
But otherwise, I will move on, and not waste anyone's time anymore.
You have a good day now, en mag jou môre ook so wees,
Carl A Jeptha
On 2016-05-03 07:02, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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On Tue, 3 May 2016, Carl Jeptha wrote:
OK QUERY is WORKING ("password_query" relies on having a field/column "password', hence the addition under WHERE): password_query =
SELECT username AS USER,
IF(cryptpwd IS NULL OR cryptpwd=' ', CONCAT('{PLAIN}',clearpwd), cryptpwd) AS PASSWORD,
'/var/vmail/%d/%n' as userdb_home,
'maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n' as userdb_mail, 150 as userdb_uid, 8 as userdb_gid
FROM mailbox
WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' AND cryptpwd = password ('%w')But still no happy dance, we now have a new error:
dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 3 attempts in 15 secs): user=user@domain.tld, method=PLAIN, rip=165.255.109.89, lip=10.0.0.12, TLS, session=
1st) You should also enable auth debugging.
2nd) You are poking in the dark with SQL without understanding it,
WHERE ... cryptpwd = password ('%w')
????
3rd) I had the impression that you want to upgrade lower hashed passwords into stronger hashed ones with a specific scheme and that you therefore need to authentificate against two columns, but update the strong hashes from the entered plain text password if missing.
If you already have access to the clear/text passwords, hash them, put the hashes into the database and be fine. No need for different columns and a post login script.
Otherwise: Nobody answered this particular question. And I see no evidance, that Dovecot passes an environment variable named PLAIN_PASSWORD along. I've read the Wiki, but I see nothing like that in the code. Did you've verified that the post login script gets the plain password?
If you have hashed passwords, CONCAT('{PLAIN}',clearpwd) is nonsense.
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Carl Jeptha cajeptha@gmail.com wrote:
Here is what is in phpmyadmin: password_query = SELECT username as user, SELECT IF( cryptpwd IS NULL OR cryptpwd = '', CONCAT('{PLAIN}', clearpwd), cryptpwd ) as password, '/var/vmail/%d/%n' as userdb_home, 'maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n' as userdb_mail, 150 as userdb_uid, 8 as userdb_gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1'
and the error now: #1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'password_query = SELECT username as user, SELECT IF( cryptpwd IS NULL ' at line 1
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Gedalya gedalya@gedalya.net wrote:
On 05/02/2016 05:32 AM, Carl Jeptha wrote:
May 2 05:26:03 |****** dovecot: auth-worker(3442): Error: sql(user@domain.tld,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): Password query must return a field named 'password' I'm not sure, maybe it's checking case-sensitive. Your query returns PASSWORD. Make it lowercase.
For testing purposes I put the query in PHPMyAdmin and it complains this (notice it drops "PASSWORD", but shows it in the query: #1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use
near '\
IF(cryptpwd IS NULL OR cryptpwd='', CONCAT('{PLAIN}',clearpwd),cryptpwd) as ' at line 1
It also sarts with a \ ... did you leave that in? That is specific to the dovecot config file. In PHPMyAdmin you should remove the line-continuation backslashes.
Actually if you use the mysql command-line client, you would be able to paste that in with the backlashes.
Make sure to put in a real value in WHERE username = '%u' <<<
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