Re: Password issue revisited - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Dave Page
Subject Re: Password issue revisited
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Msg-id 45DB4BDF.6070202@postgresql.org
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In response to Re: Password issue revisited  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: Password issue revisited  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Magnus Hagander wrote:

> Just to make things clear, this wouldn't be about another auth method.
> Windows has an API to store arbitrary passwords in a "secure way". At
> least it does in XP+, not sure if it was in 2000.

Would it really solve Tony's problem though? I'm not familiar with the
API you're thinking of, but do be useful to us it must be able to give
the unencrypted passwords back to us, and therefore anything else
pretending to be us.

Regards, Dave.

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