On Mar 13, 2005, at 5:39 PM, Berényi Gábor wrote:
> I want to send a password __safely__ to the backend that does not
> support ssl, and want to know if libpq will encode it automatically if
> I
> just call PQconnectdb() with an __unencoded__ password and if I ask
> the server administrator to set up an md5 auth method for me in
> pg_hba.conf?
Yes. If you specify md5 in the pg_hba.conf file, that is what the
server will tell libpq to send.
If you have any concerns, try watching your session with something like
tcpflow.
John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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