Jarmo Paavilainen writes:
> Ive located where the pg_shadow compare happens, but If I give a wrong
> username it will not even get that far. "pg_pwd" is never created so I
> assume its not used. So how in h*** does pg do it? And where? (which
> function?, file? mechanism?).
Of interest would be
src/backend/libpq/auth.c: checkPassword()
password.c
crypt.c
The compare always happens against pg_pwd, which gets created everytime
you create or alter a user with password.
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