Re: [Dovecot] Cannot authenticate with new Red Hat/Fedora SHA512

1 Feb 2011


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On 02/01/2011 04:31 PM John Cooper wrote:
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RHEL6 and Fedora 14 use an improved password algorithm of SHA512 on a
brand new install of the OS (:$6$ in shadow file).
cat /etc/shadow
user1:$6$<salt>$<password>:15006:0:99999:7:::
I cannot get dovecot to authenticate. I've search for a way to change
the default algorithm in dovecot and found you should use CRYPT but I
don't know what to put in the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf or
/etc/dovecot/conf.d/*
Can this be done or do you need to use an alternate password file with MD5?
Thanks, John.
You forgot to show your doveconf -n output.
Regards,
Pascal
# 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.35.10-74.fc14.i686 i686 Fedora release 14 (Laughlin)
mbox_write_locks = fcntl
On 02/01/2011 03:46 PM, Pascal Volk wrote:
passdb {
driver = pam
}
ssl_cert =