Re: Re: Encrypting pg_shadow passwords - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jim Mercer
Subject Re: Re: Encrypting pg_shadow passwords
Date
Msg-id 20010626145023.F14179@reptiles.org
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In response to Re: Re: Encrypting pg_shadow passwords  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:05:55AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> The only reason to add double-crypt is so we can continue to use
> /etc/passwd entries on systems that use crypt() in /etc/passwd.

as someone else noted, freebsd's crypt() function does multiple types
types of crypto (DES, MD5, etc) based on a tag in the salt.

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