John Cooper
2011-Feb-01 15:31 UTC
[Dovecot] Cannot authenticate with new Red Hat/Fedora SHA512
RHEL6 and Fedora 14 use an improved password algorithm of SHA512 on a brand new install of the OS (:$6$ in shadow file). cat /etc/shadow user1:$6$<salt>$<password>:15006:0:99999:7::: I cannot get dovecot to authenticate. I've search for a way to change the default algorithm in dovecot and found you should use CRYPT but I don't know what to put in the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf or /etc/dovecot/conf.d/* Can this be done or do you need to use an alternate password file with MD5? Thanks, John.
Pascal Volk
2011-Feb-01 15:46 UTC
[Dovecot] Cannot authenticate with new Red Hat/Fedora SHA512
On 02/01/2011 04:31 PM John Cooper wrote:> RHEL6 and Fedora 14 use an improved password algorithm of SHA512 on a > brand new install of the OS (:$6$ in shadow file). > > cat /etc/shadow > user1:$6$<salt>$<password>:15006:0:99999:7::: > > I cannot get dovecot to authenticate. I've search for a way to change > the default algorithm in dovecot and found you should use CRYPT but I > don't know what to put in the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf or > /etc/dovecot/conf.d/* > > Can this be done or do you need to use an alternate password file with MD5? > > Thanks, John. > >You forgot to show your `doveconf -n` output. Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: 5e1f1e55.1103216 at localdomain.org