[Dovecot] SSHA256 scheme

Daniel Luttermann daniel at dlutt.de
Sat Jul 31 23:41:45 EEST 2010


Patrick Westenberg wrote on 31.07.2010:

> Hallo,

> Daniel Luttermann schrieb:

>> Your PHP application generates the password with the given scheme and
>> write it to the password field.

> wie soll ich denn via PHP dass Passwort generieren, wenn ich nicht weis
> in welcher Art und Weise Passwort und Salt miteinander kombiniert werden
> müssen damit Dovecot es versteht.

> Gruß
> Patrick

I'm not familiar with this but there were a thread in February this
year about salted passwords:
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-February/046715.html

As far as I know dovecotpw or doveadm creates a random salt on every
run so when you use PHP it should be possible to use standard
routines with a random salt.

--
Daniel



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