>>>>> Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 20:17 +0200, Steinar Bang wrote: >> Is there any other mechanism than using passwd files with md5-hashed >> passwords created by dovecotpw that will support cram-md5 >> authentication?
> You can use any "Lookup database" as listed in > http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase But that includes passwd and shadow, and I thought they couldn't be used, even with md5 hashing of the passwords, because the md5 hash used was different to the one of cram-md5? If I can use the normal passwd/shadow of the system, that would be exactly what I want. >> Has anyone created setups where the passwd databases reside in the >> individual users home directories? > passdb passwd-file { > passwd-file = /home/%u/dovecot.passwd > } Ok. Thanx. > The performance might not be that great though since it'll have to > open a lot of files. Also Dovecot never closes passwd files it has > opened, so this method won't work if you have a lot of users (I guess > a few hundred is still ok). Ok, the machine will only everl serve 3-10 users (it's my home LAN server), so that would probably never be a problem. But if I actually can use the normal passwd of the machine, then all of this is a non-issue. Thanx!
