On Sun, 9 Oct 2022, Serveria Support wrote:
So this means passwords cannot be masked/hidden in the logs? You realize that it actually defeats the whole idea of encrypted storage? It's useless. I can think of lots of scenarios: malicious system administrator reading users mails and blackmailing them or selling their business secrets to competitors, corrupt law enforcement in some countries getting rid of political or business opponents by disclosing the contents of their mails and I can go on and on and on... There is no such thing as semi-privacy. Privacy is either there or it's not.
If your attack scenario includes somebody owning your server, nothing prevents them from compiling/installing a custom version of dovecot (or any other tool you may be using, like PAM, etc.) which dumps the passwords in clear text to a suitable file, pipe, or socket.
So good luck with that requirement.. Cheers, Bernardo
