dovecot - Jan 2013 - password schemes in dovecot

Hey there,

I'm using the latest dovecot 2.1.13

In the wiki http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/PasswordSchemes BLF-CRYPT is
listed, but i can't use it. "doveadm pw -l" doesn't show it.
And i'm unsure about how I am supposed to use the different SHA schemes,
since they always output different hashes for the same password. MD5 is working
fine, but I'd rather not use it.
Is the wiki outdated or how do i get BLF-CRYPT working?

thanks,
simon

On 01/26/2013 01:04 AM Public wrote:
> Hey there,
> 
> I'm using the latest dovecot 2.1.13
> 
> In the wiki http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/PasswordSchemes
BLF-CRYPT is listed, but i can't use it. "doveadm pw -l"
doesn't show it. And i'm unsure about how I am supposed to use the
different SHA schemes, since they always output different hashes for the same
password. MD5 is working fine, but I'd rather not use it.
> Is the wiki outdated or how do i get BLF-CRYPT working?
Your system's libc doesn't support Blowfish crypt, as mentioned in
doveadm-pw(1) <http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Pw#section_options>.

The crypt-hashes are salted hashes. `doveadm pw` generates a random
salt, each time it is invoked. Therefore you will see different hashes,
even when you enter the same password multiple times.


Regards,
Pascal
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