[Dovecot] Why does dovecot require the {} password sheme even if there is a $ crypt scheme.

[Nick Edwards]

It does, we use sha512 for long time
in sql conf use
default_pass_scheme = CRYPT

it uses the systen crypt then, (NO - this does NOT mean it uses the
ancient 8 char limited crypt) it will use whatever your underlying
operating system allows, and unless you are using something thats more
than 10 years old, it will handle better.

in our sql table

$6$68341f21c4d70c67$D9Rbgw.Ecvfdbvfbfgfdbc.....................................etc


On 1/11/14, da-dovecotlist-15 at abelonline.de
<da-dovecotlist-15 at abelonline.de> wrote:
> The wiki[1] says:
> If all the passwords are in same format, you can use default_pass_scheme to
> specify it. Otherwise each password needs to be prefixed with
> "{password-scheme}", for example "{plain}plaintext-password".
>
> Why doesn't dovecot recognize the crypt scheme identifier ($1$ for
> MD5-CRYPT, $6$ for SHA512-CRYPT etc.)? At the moment I have to have the
> following in my db for dovecot to work:
> {SHA512-CRYPT}$6$salt$passwordhash
>
> [1]http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/SQL
>