On 21.3.2013, at 18.51, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: > Hello, > > by the move to Dovecot we try to alter the password encryption stored in the > database from MD5 to CRYPT-SHA256 along the Guide at > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/ConvertPasswordSchemes. It's mostly working > but i still have not found out how to pass the cleartext password to the > re-encrypting script. According to the HowTo it should be enough to add "'%w' > AS userdb_plain_pass" to the passdb query, to get a environment variable > $PLAIN_PASS in the post-login script to pass along. > This does not work eg. PLAIN_PASS is always empty. This is Dovecot 2.0.19 > from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
userdb_plain_pass method requires that you use userdb prefetch. And Daryl's method of using %w in regular userdb .. I'm not really sure how well that works. Could easily be that different Dovecot versions behave differently.
