dovecot - May 2007 - Password Problems

I have a user that has a password that has {} in it (left and right curly
brackets). Under earlier versions of dovecot (less than v1) there weren't
any problems with it. Now that we've upgraded to v1, his password no longer
work. The short term solution is for him to change his password, which he
has. Has anyone else seen this same problem? It seems to pop up more when
using webmail apps such as Squirrelmail or Uebiumaiu.

Thanks!

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 10:15 -0700, Don O'Neil wrote:
> I have a user that has a password that has {} in it (left and right curly
> brackets). Under earlier versions of dovecot (less than v1) there
weren't
> any problems with it. Now that we've upgraded to v1, his password no
longer
> work. The short term solution is for him to change his password, which he
> has. Has anyone else seen this same problem? It seems to pop up more when
> using webmail apps such as Squirrelmail or Uebiumaiu.
If password begins with '{' then Dovecot treats it as
"{scheme}password". Otherwise { and } inside the password
shouldn't
matter. It's possible to have '{' as the first character in password
if
you make your passdb return the {scheme} prefix always. I guess you're
storing passwords as plaintext, because otherwise this shouldn't be a
problem at all. So make sure all passwords have a {plain} prefix.

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