[Dovecot] Migarting password scheme

[Daryl Richards]

On 13-03-21 12:51 PM, lst_hoe02 at kwsoft.de wrote:
> by the move to Dovecot we try to alter the password encryption stored 
> in the database from MD5 to CRYPT-SHA256 along the Guide at 
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/ConvertPasswordSchemes. It's mostly 
> working but i still have not found out how to pass the cleartext 
> password to the re-encrypting script. According to the HowTo it should 
> be enough to add "'%w' AS userdb_plain_pass" to the passdb query, to 
> get a environment variable $PLAIN_PASS in the post-login script to 
> pass along.
> This does not work eg. PLAIN_PASS is always empty. This is Dovecot 
> 2.0.19 from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
It seems to depends on how you are doing your userdb, not passdb..

I use a static userdb, so I have:

userdb {
   args = uid=xx gid=xx home=/xx/xx/%d/%n plain_pass=%w
   driver = static
}


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Daryl Richards
Isle Technical Services Inc.