Re: password long - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Mike Castle
Subject Re: password long
Date
Msg-id 20010530154648.J24802@thune.mrc-home.com
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In response to password long  (Tomasz Misterka <tomasz@hieroglif.com.pl>)
List pgsql-admin
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 12:01:22AM +0200, Tomasz Misterka wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I gave any user password longer than eight digits, the user can enter
> the base with only first eight digits of the password.
>
> Is there any possibility to have longer password?

It looks like it uses the standard unix crypt() function, which is
traditionally limited to 8 characters.

The file doc/TODO lists a future enhancement to support md5 hashes (and
longer passwords).  Perhaps you could contribute some code to that end?

mrc
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