[Dovecot] Digest-MD5 authentication problems

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Apr 9 20:19:29 EEST 2006


On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 08:14 -0600, Trev Peterson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have dovecot setup to pull passwords stored in plain from a database.
> My allowed authentication mechanisms are cram-md5 and digest-md5.  Cram
> works but digest fails on my evolution client with and authentication
> failed.  The server is running dovecot 0.99.14-1 on debian sarge.  The
> user logging in is test at advanced-reality.com.

Are you returning the password as plaintext or as the digest-md5
password hash?

I've anyway done several fixes to DIGEST-MD5 since 0.99.x releases,
upgrading to 1.0betas might help fix it..

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