[SM-PLUGINS] squirrellmail & change_passwd & dovecot - kind attn Mr. Paul Lesneiwski

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Hello, 


First of all, let me thank you for the change_password plugin for
Squirrelmail, which is very useful ! 

Since change_password seems to be the only plugin that changes passwords
in *plain text files* (not LDAP, MySQL or other backends), it seems it
is the unique solution to the problem I have. Would you please help me
to solve it ? 

On a standard Fedora Core 2 box, I use Postfix + dovecot + Squirrelmail
for a mailserver which has a few hundred users. 

However, I use plain text files as a backend database for my dovecot
users, with an unique UID and GID (please see dovecot's passwd-file
feature at  http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/Authentication ). 

Since the passwd-file has the *exact* syntax of the normal /etc/passwd
file (except the fact that UIDs and GIDs are the same for all entries),
would it be possible to use the change_password plugin to change these
dovecot passwords from squirrelmail ? 

IMHO, it would be just a minor modification/extension of the plugin,
maybe a parameter in the config file that will let user to define
the /etc/passwd-like file's path... 

However, dovecot accepts alternative syntax for the passwords, as
{PLAIN}cleartextpassword or {CRYPT}hashedpassword... 

Would it be possible to implement such a change ? I think it would be
the most straightforward/stable way to manage IMAP passwords... 

 

Thanks a lot,
Razvan