[Dovecot] SHA1

[Marco Herrn]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 12:03:04AM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 8.12.2004, at 23:20, Marco Herrn wrote:
> 
> >I use postgresql to store the user information. The passwords are
> >stored SHA1 encrypted. Now I have the problem that dovecot isn't
> >accepting the user. In dovecot-pgsql.conf I defined
> 
> In what exact SHA1 format? Salted or non-salted? Encoded to hex or 
> base64? Dovecot's SHA1 is non-salted and base64 encoded. 1.0-test 
> supports also salted ones.

It is hex and non-salted. In fact the passwords are made by the python
library and the following code:

import sha
sha.new('password').hexdigest()

So the problem seems to be that dovecot is assuming base64 while mine
are in hex. Is there a way to force dovecot to using hex encoded
passwords?


Regards
Marco


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