dovecot - Jun 2009 - CRAM-MD5 authentication but plain-md5 password storage.

Hi all,

Got a question on configuring dovecot, I'm still new at this so I
might be doing this all wrong.

I want dovecot to authenticate the mail client using CRAM-MD5 so I've
setup the config in dovecot.conf:

auth default {

    mechanisms = cram-md5
    passdb sql {
      # Path for SQL configuration file, see doc/dovecot-sql-example.conf
       args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
     }

  <snipped>
}

In my dovecot-sql.conf I've setup the password scheme to be:

default_pass_scheme = MD5

Somehow this does not work, the error I see in the logfile is:
auth-worker(default): password(info at richard5.tld,127.0.0.1): Requested
CRAM-MD5 scheme, but we have only MD5

Is there a way to get this working or does this feature only works
with passwords stored in plain text ?

Thanks!

Richard

On 06/22/2009 08:26 PM Richard wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Got a question on configuring dovecot, I'm still new at this so I
> might be doing this all wrong.
> 
> I want dovecot to authenticate the mail client using CRAM-MD5 so I've
> setup the config in dovecot.conf:
> 
> auth default {
> 
>     mechanisms = cram-md5
>     passdb sql {
>       # Path for SQL configuration file, see doc/dovecot-sql-example.conf
>        args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
>      }
> 
>   <snipped>
> }
> 
> In my dovecot-sql.conf I've setup the password scheme to be:
> 
> default_pass_scheme = MD5
> 
> Somehow this does not work, the error I see in the logfile is:
> auth-worker(default): password(info at richard5.tld,127.0.0.1): Requested
> CRAM-MD5 scheme, but we have only MD5
> 
> Is there a way to get this working or does this feature only works
> with passwords stored in plain text ?
Either use plain text, but this is NOT recommended, or dovecotpw:
	/path/to/dovecotpw -p plaintexpassword
	{CRAM-MD5}aba976aa6a7f048a82db01301075725bf42c6ad98f01a2747a853e0f479e25f8

Or w/o -p password, for the interactive mode.


Regards,
Pascal
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