Re: psql and md5 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John DeSoi
Subject Re: psql and md5
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Msg-id AA05A812-E50E-11D8-9677-000A95B03262@icx.net
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In response to Re: psql and md5  (Simon Windsor <simon.windsor@cornfield.org.uk>)
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On Aug 2, 2004, at 1:21 PM, Simon Windsor wrote:

> You can always generate the md5 password using perl/php and store the
> password
> in database. I believe the next version of pgsql will have an internal
> md5
> function.

psql is a client application. It supports md5 as an authentication
method to the server, but the password provided to psql must be plain
text as far as I can tell. My goal here is to store some psql
connection information in something like the pgpass file, but I don't
want to leave passwords without some kind of protection.

Best,


John DeSoi, Ph.D.


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