Re: You're on SecurityFocus.com for the cleartext passwords. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: You're on SecurityFocus.com for the cleartext passwords.
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Msg-id 200005062022.QAA23134@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: You're on SecurityFocus.com for the cleartext passwords.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Depending on libcrypt is pretty painful even in Unix environments;
> have you seen what we have to do to get it to work in shared-library
> contexts, on machines where libcrypt is a separate shlib and not part of
> libc?  Yech.  We could get rid of a bunch of cruft in the makefiles by
> abandoning crypt() ...

Agreed.

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