On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:20:53PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> will trillich writes:
>
> > i know "password" can be used in creating/altering user
> > information (as used via GRANT and REVOKE) but is there any
> > facility within postgres to CRYPT() a value?
>
> See contrib/pgcrypto for hashing functions.
I've got 7.0.3potato on my debian system, and i've also done
apt-get install postgresql-contrib
which looks like it's got lots of meat to it, but
dpkg -L postgresql-contrib | grep crypt
shows nada.
Care to explain -- in terms a Debian newbie might grok --
what "contrib/pgcrypto" means?
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