Changing Password Schemes

Patrick Domack patrickdk at patrickdk.com
Sat Apr 30 12:58:42 UTC 2016


This looks good, except it is truncated, it should be something like  
95chars long, Is your hash column set to 128 or up around there or  
larger?


Quoting Carl A Jeptha <cajeptha at gmail.com>:

> Sorry for double reply, but this what a password looks like in the  
> "hashed" password column:
> {SHA512-CRYPT}$6$wEn1UFuiMzl9OSjd$Vh/PZ95WDID1GwI2
>
> ------------
> You have a good day now, en mag jou môre ook so wees,
>
> On 2016-04-30 01:14, Gedalya wrote:
>> That's not SHA512-CRYPT. That's just a simple sha512 of the  
>> password, without salt.
>>
>> A SHA512-CRYPT password will be generated with:
>>
>> printf "1234\n1234" | doveadm pw -s SHA512-CRYPT
>>
>> or:
>>
>> doveadm pw -s SHA512-CRYPT -p 1234
>>
>> or:
>>
>> mkpasswd -m sha-512 1234
>>
>> (without the "{SHA512-CRYPT}" prefix)
>>
>> What exactly is the difficulty you are having with converting the passwords?
>> What database engine are you using?
>>
>>
>> On 04/29/2016 03:20 PM, Bill Shirley wrote:
>>> Looks like an SQL update would do this:
>>> UPDATE `users`
>>> SET `passwd_SHA512` = SHA2(`passwd_clear`, 512);
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> On 4/29/2016 9:07 AM, Carl A Jeptha wrote:
>>>> converting the passwords in the database from clear/plain text to  
>>>> SHA512-CRYPT





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