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Hi! i want to configure dovecot to use a modified passwdfile. A linie in this file looks like this: "username: <TAB> crypted_password" how i have to use the auth_userdb and auth_passwd command? Now i have: auth_userdb = passwd-file /path/file auth_passwd = passwd-file /path/file (same file) dovecot is starting normaly (i think) but a authentification test via telnet doesnt work. Any suggestions? Thanx a lot. Mirko

Hi All. Attached is a patch against OpenBSD, based in part on the owl-always-auth patch. The idea is that the only way out of auth_passwd for the failure case is the "return 0" at the bottom. I don't know if this is a good way to do it or not, it's presented for discussion. Also, I don't think 3.6.1p2 is quite right WRT these timing issues (eg, you get a fast failure if you get the root password right and Pe...

...s verbose. This has the huge advantage of not requiring prior knowledge of --with-upgrade to prevent a key fade. As for MD5 passwords...well, that codebase needs to be taken out of preprocessor hell, if I remember correctly. If password type was contained within sshd_config, and all possible auth_passwd methods were just compiled in, the system password type would persist from build to build in the config and wouldn't otherwise pollute the rebuilding process. Is there any reasonable, cross platform way of determining the master SSHD's PID from a child subshell? --Dan ______________...