Re: Using md5 authentication - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From ktm@rice.edu
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In response to Re: Using md5 authentication  (Philip Poloczek <Philip.Poloczek@dlr.de>)
Responses really novice with Postgres !  (Jean MAURICE <mauricejea@numericable.fr>)
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:25:03AM +0200, Philip Poloczek wrote:
> It's kind of secure. These passwords are very sensitive, i don't
> even want administrators to read these passwords in plain text.
> Maybe i should use ldap.
>

Hi Philip,

Storing a hash of a password that you could use is the same as
storing the plain text password with the same security concerns.
As you suspect, using something like ldap, gssapi or a multi-
factor authentication scheme is much, much better.

Regards,
Ken


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