dovecot - Dec 2018 - argonid and dovecote

On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 18:16:05 +0000, Larry Rosenman stated:
>Update to the latest port in the HEAD ports tree
>
>?On 12/6/18, 11:44 AM, "dovecot on behalf of Jerry"
><dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org on behalf of jerry at seibercom.net>
wrote:
>
>    on a FreeBSD 11.2 amd64 machine, I am trying to get Dovecot 2.3.4 to
play
>    nice with "argonid" encryption.
>    
>    In the "10-auth.conf" file, I tried:
>    
>    auth_mechanisms = plain argon2id
>    
>    Upon restarting dovecot, I received an error message when attempting to
>    actually it:
>    
>    auth: FATAL: Unknown authentication mechanism "ARGON2ID"
>    
>    Output from doveadm pw -l
>    
>    doveadm pw -l
>    SHA1 SSHA512 BLF-CRYPT PLAIN HMAC-MD5 OTP SHA512 SHA RPA DES-CRYPT CRYPT
> SSHA MD5-CRYPT SKEY PLAIN-MD4 PLAIN-MD5 SCRAM-SHA-1 LANMAN SHA512-CRYPT
> CLEAR CLEARTEXT ARGON2I ARGON2ID SSHA256 NTLM MD5 PBKDF2 SHA256 CRAM-MD5
>    PLAIN-TRUNC SHA256-CRYPT SMD5 DIGEST-MD5 LDAP-MD5
>    
>    I assume I am making a stupid mistake, but I do not know what it is.
>    
>    -- 
>    Jerry
I have the latest port. I discovered that I do not have to list
"argon2id" in
"auth_mechanisms", although that does seem strange.

-- 
Jerry

Because it is a PASSWORD hash, not an authentication mechanism.



?On 12/6/18, 12:37 PM, "dovecot on behalf of Jerry"
<dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org on behalf of jerry at seibercom.net>
wrote:

    
    I have the latest port. I discovered that I do not have to list
"argon2id" in
    "auth_mechanisms", although that does seem strange.
    
    -- 
    Jerry

On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 18:38:32 +0000, Larry Rosenman stated:
>Because it is a PASSWORD hash, not an authentication mechanism.
Okay, that make sense. Perhaps, a note about that somewhere might prove
useful.

-- 
Jerry