[Dovecot] MD5 ldap password schemes

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Feb 2 20:02:53 EET 2004


On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 01:21, SAiello at Jentoo.com wrote:
> Looking at the possible LDAP passwords Schemes, if I wanted to use PLAIN-MD5 
> or DIGEST-MD5, what would format would I use in LDAP for the userPassword 
> field ? I have done SHA, SSHA, and MD5 before, but not sure what is 
> acceptable for the above mentioned, that dovecot can use.

PLAIN-MD5 means the field contains just the MD5 sum of the password in
hex. DIGEST-MD5 is MD5 sum of user:realm:password string. They don't
have any special format in there..

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