reik red writes:
(I'm re-submittting after setting up a subscription, so I don't have to wait
for the moderator)
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What happened next surprised me greatly: if I specify "-s ssha", the
resulting hashed password changes each time I invoke "doveadm pw", but
if I do not specify the hashing method,
Hi there,
if you are getting different results on each invocation of the hash function,
you might have selected a salted hashing function which generates a random
salt. When you provide the same salt, you should get the same result for the
same input, but when you omit the salt, it generates a
I am absolutely dumbfounded by "doveadm pw". My understanding is that
the command should be used to create a hashed password that should in
turn be placed into /etc/dovecot/passwd
Here comes the "dumbfounded" part. I was creating a new virtual user,
running doveadm pw to generate the hashed passwo
