[Dovecot] Dovecot doesn't use vchkpw properly :(

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Jul 1 00:08:03 EEST 2005


On 30.6.2005, at 20:49, Casey Allen Shobe wrote:

> It seems that dovecot does NOT call vchkpw properly when using
> vpopmail-style authentication, I can only guess that it reads the
> vpasswd{,.cdb} files directly.

Right. It uses vpopmail's library directly.

> Are there plans to make dovecot use vchkpw in the normal
> checkpassword manner?  If not, I'd like to request it.

1.0-test releases support checkpassword interface directly.
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