Changing Password Schemes

Carl A Jeptha
Sat, 30 Apr 2016 08:02:09 -0000

The database is MySQL.

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Carl A Jeptha

On 2016-04-30 01:14, Gedalya wrote:
> That's not SHA512-CRYPT. That's just a simple sha512 of the
password, without salt.
>
> A SHA512-CRYPT password will be generated with:
>
> printf "1234\n1234" | doveadm pw -s SHA512-CRYPT
>
> or:
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> doveadm pw -s SHA512-CRYPT -p 1234
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> or:
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> mkpasswd -m sha-512 1234
>
> (without the "{SHA512-CRYPT}" prefix)
>
> What exactly is the difficulty you are having with converting the
passwords?
> What database engine are you using?
>
>
> On 04/29/2016 03:20 PM, Bill Shirley wrote:
>> Looks like an SQL update would do this:
>> UPDATE `users`
>> SET `passwd_SHA512` = SHA2(`passwd_clear`, 512);
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On 4/29/2016 9:07 AM, Carl A Jeptha wrote:
>>> converting the passwords in the database from clear/plain text to
SHA512-CRYPT