Re: encrypted passwords - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: encrypted passwords
Date
Msg-id 200208142218.g7EMIit23357@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: encrypted passwords  (Rod Taylor <rbt@zort.ca>)
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Rod Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 16:32, Neil Conway wrote:
> > A couple questions regarding encrypted passwords:
> > 
> > (1) There was talk of changing the default value of the
> >     'password_encryption' GUC variable for 7.3; AFAIK, this hasn't
> >     happened yet. Should this be done?
> 
> Since ODBC is capable of using the encryption and I presume JDBC also
> is, what reason is there for not enforcing it's use?

It was delayed until 7.3 so we had 7.2 client apps that understood it so
an upgraded would continue to work with older clients.

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