dovecot - Apr 2007 - 2 mysql dbs or 2 types of encryption

Just upgrading to 1.0.0 and I'm trying to switch from PAM (using 
pam-mysql) to a direct mysql query from dovecot, and I've got both 
md5crypt and crypt passwords in a password db.

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/PasswordSchemes seems to indicate 
that I have to pick 1, but that is per auth-worker, right?

So, I created 2 auth workers using 2 dovecot-sql config files specifying 
different default encryption schemes and it seems to work.

Is there any problem with this, other than a small bit of overhead for 2 
queries if the first doesn't hit?

Thanks,

Ken Anderson
Pacific.Net

On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 15:04 -0700, Ken Anderson wrote:
> Just upgrading to 1.0.0 and I'm trying to switch from PAM (using 
> pam-mysql) to a direct mysql query from dovecot, and I've got both 
> md5crypt and crypt passwords in a password db.
md5crypt and crypt are actually compatible with most crypt()
implementations. You should be able to use "crypt" to handle them
both.
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/PasswordSchemes seems to indicate 
> that I have to pick 1, but that is per auth-worker, right?
> 
> So, I created 2 auth workers using 2 dovecot-sql config files specifying 
> different default encryption schemes and it seems to work.
> 
> Is there any problem with this, other than a small bit of overhead for 2 
> queries if the first doesn't hit?
Auth worker is actually a bit wrong term to describe two passdb
configurations. :) But there should be no problems with a configuration
like this anyway.

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Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 15:04 -0700, Ken Anderson wrote:
>> Just upgrading to 1.0.0 and I'm trying to switch from PAM (using 
>> pam-mysql) to a direct mysql query from dovecot, and I've got both 
>> md5crypt and crypt passwords in a password db.
> 
> md5crypt and crypt are actually compatible with most crypt()
> implementations. You should be able to use "crypt" to handle them
both.
Works great.
Thanks,
Ken Anderson
Pacific.Net

> 
>> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/PasswordSchemes seems to
indicate
>> that I have to pick 1, but that is per auth-worker, right?
>>
>> So, I created 2 auth workers using 2 dovecot-sql config files
specifying
>> different default encryption schemes and it seems to work.
>>
>> Is there any problem with this, other than a small bit of overhead for
2
>> queries if the first doesn't hit?
> 
> Auth worker is actually a bit wrong term to describe two passdb
> configurations. :) But there should be no problems with a configuration
> like this anyway.
>