On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 07:08:54AM -0500, Nolan Darilek wrote: > I'm struggling to get OpenSMTPD working with DBMail. Seems I'm almost > there but not quite. Mail is arriving into my account, but I can't seem > to authenticate against the database due to authentication failures. > > Currently DBMail is storing my password unencrypted, and it occurs to me > that perhaps OpenSMTPD is expecting an encrypted password from > query_credentials. Yes, I know this is a bad idea, and I fully intend to > fix it, but my intent was to minimize moving parts. > > I found a link that seems to indicate query_credentials expects a > password returned in encrypt(3) format. Is this accurate? >
Yes, OpenSMTPD uses the host system's crypt(3) function. It expects the passwords to be returned as crypt(3)-encrypted passwords. > If so, given this from DBMail's docs: > > -p pwtype > Password type may be one of the following: plaintext, crypt, md5-hash, > md5-digest, crypt-raw, md5-hash-raw, md5-digest-raw, md5-base64, > md5-base64-raw. > > Which should I use such that query_credentials returns what OpenSMTPD > expects? > crypt > > Thanks, I'll move on to sharing configs if I'm on the wrong track with > the password format. I wanted to check that first. > -- Gilles Chehade https://www.poolp.org @poolpOrg -- You received this mail because you are subscribed to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send a mail to: [email protected]
