Re: [Dovecot] Cannot authenticate with new Red Hat/Fedora SHA512

[John Cooper]

On 02/01/2011 03:46 PM, Pascal Volk wrote:

On 02/01/2011 04:31 PM John Cooper wrote:

RHEL6 and Fedora 14 use an improved password algorithm of SHA512 on a
brand new install of the OS (:$6$ in shadow file).

cat /etc/shadow
user1:$6$<salt>$<password>:15006:0:99999:7:::

I cannot get dovecot to authenticate. I've search for a way to change
the default algorithm in dovecot and found you should use CRYPT but I
don't know what to put in the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf or
/etc/dovecot/conf.d/*

Can this be done or do you need to use an alternate password file with MD5?

Thanks, John.

You forgot to show your `doveconf -n` output.


Regards,
Pascal

# 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.35.10-74.fc14.i686 i686 Fedora release 14 (Laughlin)
mbox_write_locks = fcntl
passdb {
  driver = pam
}
ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
userdb {
  driver = passwd
}