Can I make the Courier email server use a non-default salt for passwords?

Posted by Vasiliy Stavenko on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Vasiliy Stavenko
Published on 2010-05-20T02:08:13Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 11:10 UTC
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I'm setting up email server for the first time and confused with strange thing. I have several user accounts which stored in previous server. Passwords for this accounts are in plain text. But I want to create crypts for them. MySQL (where my users will be stored) have function encrypt(passwd, salt). If no salt given used random value. I discovered that Courier uses one certain salt and crypted all passwords with it. So the task done.

But I'd like to know if there's a way to define my own salt for my pop3 server?

Can I make the Courier email server use a non-default salt for passwords?

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Published on 2010-05-20T02:08:13Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 5:21 UTC
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I'm setting up email server for the first time and confused with strange thing. I have several user accounts which stored in previous server. Passwords for this accounts are in plain text. But I want to create crypts for them. MySQL (where my users will be stored) have function encrypt(passwd, salt). If no salt given used random value. I discovered that Courier uses one certain salt and crypted all passwords with it. So the task done.

But I'd like to know if there's a way to define my own salt for my pop3 server?

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