Dovecot password policy

Joseph Tam jtam.home at gmail.com
Fri Aug 5 18:36:00 UTC 2016


Robert Blayzor <rblayzor.bulk at inoc.net> writes:

> Is there a way to configure Dovecot to perhaps filter/enforce which
> passwords are accepted before authenticating? Ie: Reject immediately
> (without a database lookup) if password is not X characters in length?

Yes, use the checkpassword hook.

 	http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/CheckPassword

I think there also some PAM module that you can stack into your
system that will enforce password policies.

Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>


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