dovecot - Jun 2004 - authentication configuration

I've included the non-defaulted bits of my dovecot.conf file at the 
bottom of this email.

As I understand my set-up it's using unix authentication methods 
(/etc/passwd via pam?).

Considering disable_plaintext_auth and auth_mechanisms, what exactly is 
being passed?  I was hoping to get
auth_mechanism = digest-md5
but that's not working out very well right now.  It seems I can only do 
plaintext authentication.

I got stuck on the userdb/auth_passdb settings.  Can someone give me an 
example of how to configure for md5-digest authentication?

My current guess is:
disable_plaintext_auth = yes
auth = digest-md5
auth_mechanism = digest_md5
auth_passdb = /etc/mydigestfile

How would I set this for pgsql?  auth_passdb = /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf


###  non-default config settings.
protocols =  imap imaps
disable_plaintext_auth = yes
login = imap
login_max_processes_count = 16
login = pop3
max_mail_processes = 512
default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir
mailbox_check_interval = 1
auth = default
auth_mechanisms = plain
auth_passdb = pam
auth_user = root

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 13:30, Tom Allison wrote:
> As I understand my set-up it's using unix authentication methods 
> (/etc/passwd via pam?).
> 
> Considering disable_plaintext_auth and auth_mechanisms, what exactly is 
> being passed?  I was hoping to get
> auth_mechanism = digest-md5
> but that's not working out very well right now.  It seems I can only do
> plaintext authentication.
DIGEST-MD5 requires specially generated password field (see last line in
doc/auth.txt, realm means pretty much same as domain). PAM supports only
plaintext authentication, so you'll need to use something else
(passwd-file or postgresql).
> My current guess is:
> disable_plaintext_auth = yes
> auth = digest-md5
> auth_mechanism = digest_md5
> auth_passdb = /etc/mydigestfile
> 
> How would I set this for pgsql?  auth_passdb = /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf
auth_passdb requires as first parameter the database type name. eg.:

auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/mydigestfile
auth_passdb = pgsql /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf

Same goes for userdb.

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