[Dovecot] Passwords in passwd-file

Joshua Goodall joshua at roughtrade.net
Sun Jul 25 08:24:32 EEST 2004


On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 01:34:24AM +0100, Andrew Boothman wrote:
> auth.txt additionally describes a syntax like:
> 
> auth_userdb = passwd-file[34] /my/passwd/file
> 
> to denote MD5 passwords in the file, but I've been unable to get any 
> combination of using []'s after passwd-file to work. Dovecot complains: 
> "Unknown userdb type".

You should just be able to use passwords of the form
$1$mysalt$digest and dovecot will recognise it as an MD5 password.

 - J

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Joshua Goodall                           "as modern as tomorrow afternoon"
joshua at roughtrade.net                                       - FW109
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