[tpop3d-discuss] MySQL Authentication

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 12:40:51PM +0100, Paul Warren wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 01:11:08AM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> > > > Not quite, unless you've modified the authentication stuff
> > > > separately. To use crypt_md5 as you appear to be doing,
> > > > you need to insert {crypt_md5} before the password, like
> > > > 
> > > >     '{crypt_md5}$1$lJ$EN6ExaPgfp1d.T9w59/S4/'
> > > 
> > > That worked. Is this documented anywhere except in the source? I couldn't 
> > > find it.
> > 
> > It's in the changelog (CHANGES file). It will be
> > documented in the new vmail-sql release (Paul?).
> 
> Yes, it will be documented properly in the perpetually imminent next
> release of vmail :-)  We should probably add a note to this effect in
> the tpop3d docs.

I think that such a note already exists. I have also
written a discussion of how auth_mysql works, to
distribute with tpop3d. I'll put this on the web, too.

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