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Kristijan Savic - ratiokontakt GmbH

2019-Mar-06 16:16 UTC

Strange behaviour with BLF-CRYPT and SHA*-CRYPT pasword schemas

Greetings,

this is less of a bug report or a help request, but we would like to know if 
someone can explain the following:

Environment: Centos 7 with Dovecot 2.3.4-2

default_pass_scheme = BLF-CRYPT
password hash in database : BLF-CRYPT
login = works

default_pass_scheme = SHA512 or SHA256-CRYPT
password hash in database : BLF-CRYPT
login = also works

default_pass_scheme = BLF-CRYPT
password hash in database : SHA512-CRYPT
login = does not work

Can someone explain these discrepancies?

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Kind regards,
Kristijan Savic

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Aki Tuomi

2019-Mar-06 16:57 UTC

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    Environment: Centos 7 with Dovecot 2.3.4-2
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    default_pass_scheme = BLF-CRYPT
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    password hash in database : BLF-CRYPT
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    login = works
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    default_pass_scheme = SHA512 or SHA256-CRYPT
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    password hash in database : BLF-CRYPT
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    login = also works
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    default_pass_scheme = BLF-CRYPT
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    password hash in database : SHA512-CRYPT
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    login = does not work
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   You could configure default scheme as CRYPT. It covers these all. Otherwise
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Kristijan Savic - ratiokontakt GmbH

2019-Mar-07 12:00 UTC

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> You could configure default scheme as CRYPT. It covers these all. Otherwise
> you need to make sure passwords have {SCHEME} prefix when it differs from
> default or oddities occur. ---
Thank you for the tip with CRYPT.

Is there any explanation for this behaviour though?

Why are BCRYPT hashes accepted when default_pass_scheme is set to SHA512-CRYPT 
and not vice versa?  Is this normal?

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Regards,

Kristijan Savic

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Telefax: +49 (0) 951 9 35 35 - 902
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