Re: MD5 password issue - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andreas Wenk
Subject Re: MD5 password issue
Date
Msg-id 496F8F8C.7080903@netzmeister-st-pauli.de
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In response to Re: MD5 password issue  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera schrieb:
> Andreas Wenk wrote:
>
>> Yes thats correct with the IP address range. Maybe I did not understand
>> the auth concept yet. I thought, that with METHOD set to md5, a md5
>> hashed password is required. The password is submitted with the PHP 5
>> pg_connect function - as plain text.
>
> It is specified to pg_connect as plain text, but it is sent over the
> wire md5-hashed.
>
>> So maybe the better question is: what is the difference between METHOD
>> password and md5? As I assume now because of your answers, it has
>> nothing to do with either the password is md5 hashed or not?
>
> The difference is what travels on the wire.
>

ok thanks - I think I got it now ... ;-)

Cheers

Andy

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St.Pauli - Hamburg - Germany

Andreas Wenk


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