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

[da-dovecotlist-15 at abelonline.de]

Thanks! It does seem to work.

On Monday 13 January 2014 12:33:51 Nick Edwards wrote:
> 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