libpq: passwords WAS: scripting & psql issues - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Daniel Martini
Subject libpq: passwords WAS: scripting & psql issues
Date
Msg-id 1092900637.4124571d0cbd2@webmail.uni-hohenheim.de
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In response to Re: scripting & psql issues  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>)
Responses Re: libpq: passwords WAS: scripting & psql issues  (Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>)
List pgsql-general
Hello list,

Citing Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>:
> The problem here is that the password can't be stored one-way-hash
> digested, because the cleartext version is needed to be sent to the
> server.

Actually why this is so has been a question for me for some time now, too.
Did just nobody have the time / idea to implement support for sending
hashed passwords to the server, or are there serious difficulties involved
with this, and I don't see them?

Regards,
Daniel

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