Displaying 3 results from an estimated 3 matches for "password_generate".
2003 Nov 12
3
Problem with DIGEST-MD5 authentication and plaintext passwords
I wasn't able to get DIGEST-MD5 authentication working with passwords
stored as plaintext until I tweaked password_generate() to make it not
use the domain portion of user at domain.com as the realm. Both evolution
and kmail send the email address as the username with no realm; when
dovecot tries to convert the username to user + realm, the hash is
different and so DIGEST-MD5 authentication fails. Having
password_g...
2003 Nov 17
1
Problem with DIGEST-MD5 authentication and plainte xt passwords
...re been changes in the digest-md5 code since 0.99.9.1 ?
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> Kind regards,
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> Maikel Verheijen
> Ladot Nederland BV.
The problem is not with passwords that are stored in the db in
digest-md5 format (i.e., as an md5 hash of user:realm:password), but
with dovecot's password_generate() that takes the username and password
and hashes it on the fly.
Matt
2013 Sep 26
1
How to authenticate against SQL DB with custom-ciphered passwords?
Hello,
I'm about to start developing authentication/password-scheme module for
Dovecot. So I would like to get some advice before actually committing to
doing things in particular way. Hope somebody will be able to help me :)
For the record, I am currently targeting latest stable Dovecot version
2.2.5.
I have an SQL DB with mail users' authentication data. Passwords are stored
either