Hello,
Is this the proper place to suggest an enhancement for the stock dovecot
package ?
The enhancement would be the following:
For the time being, the dovecotpw utility offers a standardised way to
interactively encode a user password in a certain scheme, say:
dovecotpw -s CRYPT
Enter new passord:
Re-enter new password:
etc.
Given a *valid* /etc/imap.passwd file (passwd-file authentication),
dovecotpw should be able to process it non-interactively and output
another text file with all {PLAIN} passwords converted in the specified
<scheme>, i.e.:
dovecotpwd -s CRYPT if=/etc/imap.passwd of=/etc/imap.passwd.converted
where /etc/imap.passwd.converted have the previously {PLAIN} passwords
converted in scheme CRYPT.
Passwords that were previously encrypted in other schemes than {PLAIN}
shoud remain untouched.
That will allow quick securing of old legacy /etc/imap.passwd files.
Thanks a lot,
Răzvan
