[sork] Passwd, vpopmail and mysql

Amith Varghese amith at xalan.com
Wed Feb 12 17:47:14 PST 2003


> > but I am still unable to change passwords. I have the backends.php
> > configured to talk with my sql server (and it is doing so) and I have the
> > encryption set to 'md5-hex' (is this correct?).
> 
> I have no idea what is the correct encryption for vpopmail.  The default
> is 'crypt' so I would guess that it should be 'crypt' unless you changed
> it for your setup.

The encryption method depends on how you initially came up with the passwords. 
If you migrated your passwords from /etc/passwd you should use md5-base64.  If
you generated the passwords with PHP's md5() function then use md5-hex.

Amith



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