dovecot - Aug 2005 - Authentication with encrypted passwords

Hello,

I have a postgresql database which contains users that will access
dovecot, but their passwords are hashed and I don't have them in plain
text.
I was reading documentation that you can add tell dovecot which
password scheme should it use.
For example:

password_query = "select '{MD5}'||password from users where
userid=%u"

Which would mean that dovecot will hash the password with MD5 from
client and match it with the one in database.
Did I understand this correctly ? 

Thanks, Sebastjan

On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 12:52 +0200, Sebastjan Trepca
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a postgresql database which contains users that will access
> dovecot, but their passwords are hashed and I don't have them in plain
> text.
> I was reading documentation that you can add tell dovecot which
> password scheme should it use.
> For example:
> 
> password_query = "select '{MD5}'||password from users where
userid=%u"
> 
> Which would mean that dovecot will hash the password with MD5 from
> client and match it with the one in database.
> Did I understand this correctly ? 
Right. Or you could also just change default_pass_scheme to MD5.

BTW. MD5 means "md5crypt" passwords. There are also PLAIN-MD5 and
others
for simple MD5-hashed passwords if that's what you need.

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