Re: Automatic DB password hash scheme selection

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Hi all,

Is there a way to get dovecot to recognize arbitrary password hash schemes when looking up a password in a database? I originally set up with #default_pass_scheme = MD5, and I would like to migrate to SHA512.

Is this possible currently? Thanks,

Kurt

Hi!

Prefix with {SCHEME}.

Hi Aki,

Thanks for the tip. This works, but when implementing it I discovered that just setting the password type generically to 'CRYPT' will let Dovecott use the built-in OS crypt decoding of the scheme number already encoded in the password. It now automatically detects MD5, SHA256, and SHA512. If my Linux distribution supported blowfish it would support that too.