Severity: wishlist


Dear Maintainer,
 Encrypting the password in an sql database for sasl2 to use has been a long outstanding feature that needs to be fixed. There are currently a few methods of resolving the issue but they involve outdated patches as well as installing other packages as a work around to the solution. Fixing this issue could help resolve a major issue with sql databases and sasl2 and help promote cyrus as imap server.
 The issue in question is the lack of support for the password_format: crypt option. As online security is ever more important this day and age, storing plain text passwords in a database isn't an acceptable use case. This functionality has been included with other libsasl2-modules-* packages. I honestly haven't found an answer as to why this functionality hasn't been included. If there is a reason, I apologize for the bug report but would also like an explanation so that I may document it accordingly.
 Thank you for your time. I look forward to answering any more questions you may have about this issue and/or what the current fixes look like.
Best,
Alex