dovecot - Aug 2016 - Save user passwords in clear text

Is it possible to save user passwords as clear text through dovecot? I am
currently using MD5 passwords and I allow only "plain and login? mechanisms
but I want to switch my database to clear text as this will give me the ability
to use more mechanisms such as CRAM-MD5. Is this possible?

Thank you

> Is it possible to save user passwords as clear text through dovecot? I am
> currently using MD5 passwords and I allow only "plain and login?
> mechanisms but I want to switch my database to clear text as this will
> give me the ability to use more mechanisms such as CRAM-MD5. Is this
> possible?
I'm not sure if this is what you mean by saving passwords "through
dovecot".  But here's how to save a clear-text password when the passdb
scheme is not plaintext.

Use the {PLAIN} prefix.  Example:

10-auth.conf:
  passdb {
    driver = passwd-file
    args = scheme=cram-md5 username_format=%n /path/passdb
  }

/path/passdb:
  username:{PLAIN}secret

User "username" can log in with password "secret"

Michael

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On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote:
> Is it possible to save user passwords as clear text through dovecot? I 
> am currently using MD5 passwords and I allow only "plain and login? 
> mechanisms but I want to switch my database to clear text as this will 
> give me the ability to use more mechanisms such as CRAM-MD5. Is this 
> possible?
Someone tried to do something like that with:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/CheckPassword

Check the archive of this list.

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Steffen Kaiser
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* Lefteris Tsintjelis <lefty at spes.gr> 2016.08.05 21:01:
> Is it possible to save user passwords as clear text through dovecot?
Have a look at how schemes can be converted using postlogin scripts:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/ConvertPasswordSchemes
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> On 13 Aug 2016, at 08:17, Thomas Leuxner <tlx at leuxner.net> wrote:
> 
> * Lefteris Tsintjelis <lefty at spes.gr> 2016.08.05 21:01:
> 
>> Is it possible to save user passwords as clear text through dovecot?
> 
> Have a look at how schemes can be converted using postlogin scripts:
> 
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/ConvertPasswordSchemes
Thanks, but there is a problem though, last time I tried prefetch did not work
with virtual