[tpop3d-discuss]SHA1 hashes in MySQL and more verbose debug

Marcin Sochacki wanted at gnu.univ.gda.pl
Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:18:04 +0200


On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 05:19:38PM -0500, estoy@ver.megared.net.mx wrote:
> So, in order to make it work with the default support from tpop3d 
> ('{crypt}' / '{crypt_md5}') I changed the password hash in DB... i.e., 
> using ENCRYPT('mypassword') in MySQL... but it is not working, and the 
> log reveals nothing that I can use to trace the error (and I'm using 
> the -v switch):

If you are not bound to any method of hashing the password, why not use
the MD5() method from MySQL instead of ENCRYPT()? This one is supported
in tpop3d out of the box (i.e. {md5}HASH).

Marcin