[Dovecot] Multiple password schemes

Jan van den Berg jan.vandenberg at isp.solcon.nl
Tue Feb 26 15:42:01 EET 2008


CRYPT and MD5-CRYPT are compatible in pretty much all operating systems.
You could just make CRYPT your default password scheme and it'll work
for both.

I did not know that. But it works!

Cheers,

Jan


-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss at iki.fi] 
Verzonden: dinsdag 26 februari 2008 14:02
Aan: Jan van den Berg
CC: dovecot at dovecot.org
Onderwerp: Re: [Dovecot] Multiple password schemes

On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 13:27 +0100, Jan van den Berg wrote:
> This works; however I noticed because of history a lot of my users
still
> have a CRYPT password (not a MD5-CRYPT password). Now I get these
> errors:

CRYPT and MD5-CRYPT are compatible in pretty much all operating systems.
You could just make CRYPT your default password scheme and it'll work
for both.

Another possibility is to prefix the passwords with {scheme} in the
password database.



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