dovecot - Feb 2014 - BLF-CRYPT passwords

I?m using the Dovecot Enterprise Edition on Centos 6.5, but Blowfish password
hashes don?t seem to work.  What can I do to enable Blowfish hashes for
passwords?  Maybe I don?t have my installation configured properly?

Note that I really want to use the existing Blowfish hashes in my MySQL database
for Dovecot Authentication.  The hashes are generated by PHP crypt() that has
Blowfish support built-in.  I looked at PHP?s sources, and PHP uses
crypt_blowfish.c from openwall.com/crypt.  This code is in the
public domain and could easily be used by Dovecot to support Blowfish passwords
on all platforms (if Dovecot doesn?t already support Blowfish on all platforms).

Kevin

If they where generated using crypt, why not tell dovecot to use crypt also?


Quoting KT Walrus <kevin at my.walr.us>:
> I?m using the Dovecot Enterprise Edition on Centos 6.5, but Blowfish  
> password hashes don?t seem to work.  What can I do to enable  
> Blowfish hashes for passwords?  Maybe I don?t have my installation  
> configured properly?
>
> Note that I really want to use the existing Blowfish hashes in my  
> MySQL database for Dovecot Authentication.  The hashes are generated  
> by PHP crypt() that has Blowfish support built-in.  I looked at  
> PHP?s sources, and PHP uses crypt_blowfish.c from  
> openwall.com/crypt.  This code is in the public domain  
> and could easily be used by Dovecot to support Blowfish passwords on  
> all platforms (if Dovecot doesn?t already support Blowfish on all  
> platforms).
>
> Kevin