Re: Re: Proposal for encrypting pg_shadow passwords - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Re: Proposal for encrypting pg_shadow passwords
Date
Msg-id 200108161711.f7GHB0x05357@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Re: Proposal for encrypting pg_shadow passwords  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Re: Proposal for encrypting pg_shadow passwords  (Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>)
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> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > I don't follow this argument.  You added a config option that toggles
> > whether to use the old crypt(3) method or the new md5 method.
>
> ?? If the config option works like that, I think it's wrong.  There
> shouldn't *be* a config option, unless it's one that turns off MD5
> because the platform hasn't got int64 support.  An MD5-enabled server
> or client must still be able to do crypt too, in order to speak to
> older clients or servers.

Sorry, when I said config, I meant pg_hba.conf.  Was that unclear?

Also, I will replace md5.c with pgcrypto/md5.c.

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