<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 at 15:54, Aki Tuomi <<a href="mailto:aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com">aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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On 20 December 2018 at 14:33 Odhiambo Washington <
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 at 15:23, Aki Tuomi <
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On 20 December 2018 at 14:10 Odhiambo Washington <
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You've made this more difficult to understand, even :-)
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So the answer is:
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Set the following in 10-auth.conf
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1. disable_plaintext_auth = no
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2. auth_mechanisms = plain
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And yes, the encrypted passwords are stored in MySQL.
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You cannot use hashed passwords with digest-md5 mechanism.
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So, for the record, whenever passwords are hashed, digest-md5 should be
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disabled/removed from auth_mechanisms.
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My question though - for purposes of understanding - how does dovecot take
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the sent password from a client and match it against the hashed one stored
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in the DB (in my case)? What happens in between the process?
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Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
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"Oh, the cruft.", grep ^[^#] :-)
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Dovecot hashes the client sent password using the same salt and compares the result.
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</blockquote></div><div><br></div>At the expense of sounding stupid, could you please expound on the sequence? :)<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Best regards,<br>Odhiambo WASHINGTON,<br>Nairobi,KE<br>+254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223<br>"<span style="font-size:12.8px">Oh, the cruft.</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">", </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">grep ^[^#] :-)</span></div></div></div></div></div></div>