MD5-encrypted passwords in a SASL-SQL-database

[Rudy Gevaert]

Haakon Gjersvik Eriksen wrote:
> 
> Hello, everyone
> 
> We're about to migrate a server from Courier-IMAP to Cyrus-IMAP. The 
> Courier-server autheticates via authdaemond to a MySQL-server, and the 
> passwords in the MySQL-server are MD5-encrypted.
> 
> I can not get authentication to work with Cyrus and SASL (with the SQL 
> auxprop-plugin) with the encrypted passwords, only when the passwords 
> are in plaintext. The question is, is there something I've not 
> understood in how to configure Cyrus/SASL, or does the SQL 
> auxprop-plugin require all the passwords to be in plaintext?
> 
> If it is not possible to have MD5-encrypted passwords, does anone have 
> any suggestions what we could do instead? Authenticate against Courier's 
> authdaemond, perhaps?

A way to use md5 encrypted passwords is to let saslauthd connect to pam 
and let pam connect to the mysql database.


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