Re: change p/w hashing - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Josh Kupershmidt
Subject Re: change p/w hashing
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Msg-id BANLkTim3d3HkFjjURuP7kxChd7PLffH4-A@mail.gmail.com
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In response to change p/w hashing  ("Jean-Yves F. Barbier" <12ukwn@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-novice
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Jean-Yves F. Barbier <12ukwn@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there an easy way to discard Pg default md5 password hashing and replace it
> by SHA256 (or SHA512) + salt?

I doubt there's an "easy way". First, the md5 authentication of
clients via libpq would be broken. Second, AFAIK the only hash algo
built into core is MD5 (SHA-256 and friends are in
./contrib/pgcrypto).

Josh

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