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

Casey Allen Shobe lists at seattleserver.com
Fri Jul 1 02:23:58 EEST 2005


On Thursday 30 June 2005 21:08, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 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.

Will it continue to work when we change to using PostgreSQL support 
in vpopmail to store the usernames and passwords in a database?

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