Re: - Mailing list pgadmin-support

From Dave Page
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Msg-id FED2B709E3270E4B903EB0175A49BCB10473A8@dogbert.vale-housing.co.uk
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In response to  ("Peter E. Chen" <pchen3@jhmi.edu>)
List pgadmin-support

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henshall, Stuart - WCP
> [mailto:SHenshall@westcountrypublications.co.uk]
> Sent: 20 December 2001 16:11
> To: 'Peter E. Chen'; pgadmin-support@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support]
>
>
> I havn't actually done it but I believe in 7.2 MD5 is a
> possibility. Before this the ODBC driver just handled plain
> text authentication. (Although as you said you can use
> something like SSH tunneling)
> - Stuart

Do you mean password encryption using MD5 (which pgAdmin handles already) or
connection encryption? If the latter, how does the ODBC driver handle it -
through a connection string option? I know Bruce added some MD5 code, but I
never really looked at it.

/Dave.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter E. Chen [mailto:pchen3@jhmi.edu]
> Sent: 20 December 2001 15:55
> To: pgadmin-support@postgresql.org
> Subject: [pgadmin-support]
>
>
> Hey All,
>
> Can anyone please tell me whether or not pgAdmin can use
> encryption to connect to PostgresQL.  I want to find a way to
> connect to the database without sending clear text passwords.
>
> Is SSH tunneling the only way?
>
> Peter
>
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