On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Mark Alan <[email protected]> wrote: > The best place for this question is the Dovecot mailing list. >
Wow, Mark, you're right! I'm sorry, I've been googling at this for quite a while and my judgement must be impaired! > That said, as a hint you should look at: > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Pw > > While at that page, if go to the part about '-u user' it clearly reads: > 'When the DIGEST-MD5 scheme is used, also the user name must be > given, because the user name is a part of the generated hash.' > > Where in 'printf "12345" | md5sum', is that (required) user name? > I see, thanks. That alleviates that issue! For curiosity's sake I tried to md5 hash the following, without being able to recreate the md5 hash as generated by doveadm: user:[email protected] [email protected]:pass [email protected] pass -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com
