how to let MPD check the password against POP3, IMAP or WWW?

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 6:20 PM, assetburned <freebsd at assetburned.de> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a MPD VPN server and another machine which runs WWW, IMAP and POP3
> services.
>
> I know that I could check if a password is valid e.g. by writing a script
> which calls a Lynx command.
>
> But how can I forward the password from MPD to that script? And I also think
> that the password has to be unencrypted for the lynx command, so how can I
> manage that?
>
> CU AssetBurned

I run dovecot with MySQL database on one of my servers. Dovecot
provides POP3/IMAP.
I also have mpd5 on this box and I use credentials from the DB (which
contains cleartext passwords) for mpd5 to authenticate, but I do it
using a script which extracts the username and cleartext password and
writes those to mpd.secret, and also sets the correct permissions on
the file. It's a simplistic shell script, called from cron once a day.

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