Hi,
I've searched in the wiki and in the mailinglist archives but haven't
found anything about password character sets within the dovecot
authentication deamon.
My problem is that we have users with passwords containing scandinavian
characters (äöå, umlauts) and the debug log shows that diff
On Nov 18, 2008, at 5:32 PM, Fredrik Grönqvist wrote:
Is there a setting that "forces" the authentication daemon to
convert the provided password to a specific charset before the
comparison takes place, or how should one handle this?
Dovecot doesn't know the character set that the client is
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 05:51:05PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Nov 18, 2008, at 5:32 PM, Fredrik Grönqvist wrote:
>
> >Is there a setting that "forces" the authentication daemon to
> >convert the provided password to a specific charset before the
> >comparison takes place, or how should o
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 17:26 +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 05:51:05PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Nov 18, 2008, at 5:32 PM, Fredrik Grönqvist wrote:
> >
> > >Is there a setting that "forces" the authentication daemon to
> > >convert the provided password to a spec
18.11.2008 19:03, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 17:26 +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 05:51:05PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Nov 18, 2008, at 5:32 PM, Fredrik Grönqvist wrote:
Is there a setting that "forces" the authentication daemon to
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On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:03:04PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 17:26 +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> > It seems like this is a limitation in the IMAP protocol. From RFC 3501:
>
> I remember reading something about using UTF-8 and stringprep in
> authentication strings, pro
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 19:27 +0200, Fredrik Grönqvist wrote:
> 18.11.2008 19:03, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 17:26 +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 05:51:05PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Nov 18, 2008, at 5:32 PM, Fredrik Grönqvis
18.11.2008 19:57, Timo Sirainen wrote:
Ok, I see how this makes things problematic. One couldn't just encode it
to UTF-8 anyway and do the comparison after that (provided there would
be an option enabled)?
You can encode everything to UTF-8, but the result will be different
depending on w
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:00:00PM +0200, Fredrik Grönqvist wrote:
> Yes, I see. So in light of this and the conversation on the imap-protocol
> -list
>
> http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-protocol/2008-February/000822.html
>
>
>
> our current options seem to boil down to having
19.11.2008 01:34, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:00:00PM +0200, Fredrik Grönqvist wrote:
Yes, I see. So in light of this and the conversation on the imap-protocol
-list
http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-protocol/2008-February/000822.html
our current optio
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:44:21AM +0200, Fredrik Grönqvist wrote:
> Yes, I agree that it should be in UTF-8. My specific problem is that about
> 80% (a rough estimate) of our users are on either Windows or webmail. Those
> having passwords containing umlauts etc can log on, using their current
> c
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 01:54:48PM +0200, Fredrik Grönqvist wrote:
> Thanks for the info, a setup like this is what I opted for eventually. I
> added a note to that wiki page that the query also needs to return the
> "nopassword" -field for Dovecot 1.1+ to accept the NULL password:
Ok, good catch
19.11.2008 14:33, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
In case someone else is looking for info about this, this workaround
works for DB backed accounts, as you mention, but will probably not work
with an LDAP (or other) backend.
Right, it's just a hack that fits your particular setup. :-)
For a prope
19.11.2008 10:27, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:44:21AM +0200, Fredrik Grönqvist wrote:
Yes, I agree that it should be in UTF-8. My specific problem is that about
80% (a rough estimate) of our users are on either Windows or webmail. Those
having passwords containing umlaut
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