[Dovecot] Plain and MD5 passwd for the same user?
Hello,
I'm running dovecot 1.0-0_12.beta8. Since I have only a very small number of user on that server, I have their names and password in text files, no databases.
imap works both via webmail and via Kmail
Is it possible to have, for the same user, a plain unencrypted password when connecting via imap on the local interface (needed, as I understand it, to be squirrelmail compatible) and a DIGEST-MD5 one when connecting via pop3s or imaps remotely?
TIA, Marco
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On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 18:30 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote:
Hello,
I'm running dovecot 1.0-0_12.beta8. Since I have only a very small number of user on that server, I have their names and password in text files, no databases.
imap works both via webmail and via Kmail
Is it possible to have, for the same user, a plain unencrypted password when connecting via imap on the local interface (needed, as I understand it, to be squirrelmail compatible) and a DIGEST-MD5 one when connecting via pop3s or imaps remotely?
When using plaintext authentication the password can be crypted in the password file. So the solution is to just store the passwords in DIGEST-MD5 format in the passwd-file and both DIGEST-MD5 and PLAIN authentication works.
Alternatively you can store also the passwords in plaintext in the passwd-file and then all current and future authentication mechanisms work with it.
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M. Fioretti
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Timo Sirainen