[Dovecot] Problem with DIGEST-MD5 authentication and plaintext passwords

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 03:09, Matthew Reimer wrote:
> I wasn't able to get DIGEST-MD5 authentication working with passwords 
> stored as plaintext until I tweaked password_generate() to make it not 
> use the domain portion of user at domain.com as the realm. Both evolution 
> and kmail send the email address as the username with no realm; when 
> dovecot tries to convert the username to user + realm, the hash is 
> different and so DIGEST-MD5 authentication fails. Having 
> password_generate() hash user at domain.com::password instead of 
> user:domain.com:password fixes it. I need this to work because I need to 
> support all of PLAIN, CRAM-MD5, and DIGEST-MD5 at the same time.
> 
> Timo, do you think this is a proper fix, or are kmail and evolution broken?

Well .. Looks like most clients don't actually use realms, but I rather
wouldn't completely drop support for them which your change would do.

Correct fix would be to separate realm and "@domain" handling in code,
that should work with both cases. I'll see if I can get that done.

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