[Dovecot] Debugging password schemes

[Ian R. Justman]

Hi, all.

I managed to get my new password scheme routine written, but a couple of 
things:

1.  The example module lacks an init routine.  Since I used it as a 
model, my module also lacks one.  As such, my newly-built module is seen 
but not registered.  In the meantime, I moved the routines into 
password-scheme.c instead where I had access to all the MD5 routines 
already set up for me.

2.  Once in password-scheme.c and modified to the point where it builds 
without warnings or errors and it doesn't gag on itself, it doesn't seem 
to work properly.

What's the best way to debug password-scheme.c so I can see what's going 
on so I can fix things accordingly?  I have to "manually" break apart 
the value stored in a database a bit differently than other salted 
values (it's using salted MD5 values a bit differently than normal). 
The password format from a Post.Office server, but apparently, Netscape 
Messaging Server uses this same format.

Thanks!

--Ian.

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Ian R. Justman
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