[Dovecot] cram-md5 and users maintaining their own passwords?

Steinar Bang sb at dod.no
Sat Sep 13 20:43:22 EEST 2008


>>>>> Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:

> You can use shadow, but only if you can put the passwords there as
> {cram-md5}password. That of course means that only Dovecot is able to
> use such passwords. Also you can't modify the passwords with passwd
> utility because it doesn't write compatible passwords.

Ah... which means that in practice I can't...;-)

> Maybe I should mention this in the wiki page. :)

Indeed! :-)



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