On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 14:48 +0200, Steinar Bang wrote: > >>>>> 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.
You can use shadow, but only if you can put the passwords there as
{cram-md5}password. That of course means that only Dovecot is able to
use such passwords. Also you can't modify the passwords with passwd
utility because it doesn't write compatible passwords. Maybe I should
mention this in the wiki page. :)
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