[Dovecot] Trying nonplaintext mech with LDAP password-hash

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 00:31 +0200, dovecotlist at encambio.com wrote:

> I've already verified that this works correctly with plaintext
> (CLEARTEXT in slapd.conf), but I really want to store the passwords
> in LDAP using some hash. Why doesn't LDAP-MD5 work as advertised?

Because it's impossible to support it. Read
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/Mechanisms

> What did the author mean by 'properly hashed passwords'? Thanks.

I made it a link now to
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/PasswordSchemes#Non-plaintext_authentication_mechanisms

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