[dev] PASSWD and VPOPMAIL

[Vilius Sumskas]

Cituojama Joaquim Homrighausen <joho at webbplatsen.se>:

>
> Very odd.. I've played with the PASSWD module and am using the 
> VPOPMAIL backend.
> I cannot for the life of me figure out which encryption method to use 
> (I'd like
> the password comparison/check to be done against the encrypted password if at
> all possible). VPOPMAIL uses MD5-passwords, or so the configuration says, the
> strings in the encrypted field all start with $1$ (well, 95% of them 
> anyway)..
> which I thought was a good indicator of an MD5 salt.. but.. to no 
> avail. I get
> nothing but "Incorrect password" back from PASSWD.

Have you tried crypt-md5? If your password looks like:
$1$xxxxxxxx$xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx it's crypt'ed password with salt of MD5.


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    Best Regards,

    Vilius