Unknown scheme SSHA256.HEX.b64

[Pascal Volk]

On 11/29/2014 04:04 AM, grundy wrote:
> I'm getting a very strange error and I'm completely mystified by it. Thank
> you so much for taking a look!
> 
> I recently migrated some users from another dovecot server to my own, and
> the previous admin had the passwords in their database using the SSHA256
> scheme in HEX format. All the password hashes are in my database (MySQL)
> with a {SSHA256.HEX} prefix, and I thought at first that they were working
> fine, but then I checked my logs and am seeing this:
> 
> localhost dovecot: auth: Error: password(***@***.***): Unknown scheme
> SSHA256.HEX.b64
> 
> (I have replaced the email address with asterisks)
> 
> I am completely flabbergasted, as I can't imagine how "SSHA256.HEX.b64" is
> even coming in to existence as a string. I have triple checked the database
> and that combination appears nowhere in it.
> 
> Does anybody have any idea how that is happening? Thanks again.


You forgot to show `doveconf -n` output.
Check the contents of the file mentioned in: `doveconf passdb | grep args`


Regards,
Pascal
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