14 Apr
2013
14 Apr
'13
6:59 p.m.
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 03:24:38 -0700 From: professa@dementianati.com CC: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] How to manually generate a password hash
- If your passwords are of the format $1$..., then they are in standard crypt md5 format. They are salted. The salt is between the second and third $ and the actual hash follows the third $.
Aha! That's the piece I was missing. I never noticed the third '$' and for some reason I never tried running doveadm pw the exact same way twice in a row to notice that the results were different. Verified that I could generate a hash from doveadm pw, insert it in the database, and log in on that account.
Thank you, and thanks to the others who responded as well.
-Dave