[Dovecot] [PATCH 0/10] NTLM patchset submission

Andrey Panin pazke at donpac.ru
Thu Jul 29 07:31:19 EEST 2004


On 210, 07 28, 2004 at 11:33:40PM +1000, Joshua Goodall wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 12:36:30AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On 27.7.2004, at 16:18, Andrey Panin wrote:
> > 
> > >It contains common code in src/lib-ntlm directory, Samba compatible
> > >NTLM password scheme and authentication mechanism itself.
> > 
> > So now Dovecot has md4, md5, sha1 and des code. Maybe there should be a 
> > lib-crypto or something similiar for those.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Especially since I was thinking about doing a {BLOWFISH} for the
> $2$ MCF this weekend.
> 
> Also, Timo, do you think it would be worth have a compatability
> userdb/passdb for migrants from Courier's USERDB?
> 
> Andrey, how does the NTLM password scheme relate to OpenLDAP's
> {LANMAN} scheme?  As far as I can tell, {NTLM} uses md4 whilst
> {LANMAN} uses des.  Is that correct?

As i can guess from the {LANMAN} name, it probably uses older Lan
Manager password hash format which is DES based. We can get support
for it in ten minutes, all needed pieces are in place.

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Andrey Panin		| Linux and UNIX system administrator
pazke at donpac.ru		| PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net
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