dovecot - Aug 2012 - blf-crypt

Hi

The blf-crypt password schema mentioned in the docs could be a solution to my
auth problem. However, the docs state that actual support depends on the glibc.
Mine apparently doesn't.

Does support depend on the glibc's version (mine is 2.15-r2)?

Maybe someone with access to a box with a good enough glibc could do the
following and post the hash for the plain password "test"?

doveadm pw -s BLF-CRYPT
Enter new password: test

With this I could verify whether the BLF-CRYPT scheme would solve my problem in
the first place without going through the hassle of upping the glibc.

Thanks a bunch!

BLF-CRYPT has been part of glibc for a very very long time. it uses  
the blowfish crypt version, that have been changed like 4 times now,  
do to issues with it.

I'm not sure why CRYPT wouldn't work for you, seems to work fine in my  
dovecot installs.

I'm not sure where the dovecot < 2.0 can use {CRYPT} came from. I'm  
using that, since 0.7x? or somewhere around there, all the way up  
through, and currently 2.1.7 without issue.


Quoting Sven Schwyn <svoop at delirium.ch>:
> Hi
>
> The blf-crypt password schema mentioned in the docs could be a  
> solution to my auth problem. However, the docs state that actual  
> support depends on the glibc. Mine apparently doesn't.
>
> Does support depend on the glibc's version (mine is 2.15-r2)?
>
> Maybe someone with access to a box with a good enough glibc could do  
> the following and post the hash for the plain password "test"?
>
> doveadm pw -s BLF-CRYPT
> Enter new password: test
>
> With this I could verify whether the BLF-CRYPT scheme would solve my  
> problem in the first place without going through the hassle of  
> upping the glibc.
>
> Thanks a bunch!