dovecot - Aug 2013 - 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

Google the terms "Dictionary Attack" and "Rainbow Table"
?perhaps ? ?;-)


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 From: Axel Luttgens <AxelLuttgens at swing.be>
To: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot at dovecot.org> 
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