[Dovecot] multiple passwords in different schemes

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jan 20 22:19:53 EET 2009


On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 21:15 +0100, Maciej Uhlig wrote:
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > I've implemented it (or actually something that's a bit more generic)
> > this far: http://dovecot.org/patches/1.2/auth-multi-password.diff
> >
> > But IIRC it's still missing things and I decided it's not worth the
> > effort right now.
> >   
> I see. FYI I'd like to allow an user to authenticate for postfix: at 
> work using PLAIN (with TLS) and at home using CRAM-MD5, while different 
> scheme passwords are stored in LDAP directory. Would your 
> auth-multi-password patch be enough for this purpose?

If the password is the same in both cases, you can simply use a single
CRAM-MD5 scheme. Dovecot can do plaintext authentication against all
schemes just fine.

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