Google the terms "Dictionary Attack" and "Rainbow Table" perhaps ? ;-)
________________________________ From: Axel Luttgens <[email protected]> To: Dovecot Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 16 August 2013, 13:55 Subject: [Dovecot] Any way to test a master user's password? Hello, Is there any way to easily check a master user's password, for itself, without having to refer to another user or to weak the security by allowing master users to log in for themselves? For example, this works: # doveadm auth test 'someuser*masteruser' Password: <enter master user's password here> passdb: someuser*masteruser auth succeeded but depends on the existence of another user, and is thus contingent and unnecessarily heavy. TIA, Axel
