Re: Security - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Security
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0105191117430.758-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Security  ("Ernesto A. Lira Castro" <lira@ver.megared.net.mx>)
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Ernesto A. Lira Castro writes:

> I'm trying to set login & passwords to my system with Perl DBI for
> Postgresql, but i want to have a field on my Postgres's database
> that can be type password!! is that possible?? i see only fields types
> (Char, integer, long . . .) i want some password to be encrypted.

In contrib/pgcrypto in the source tree there are some digest (hash)
functions (note: digest != encryption) that you might find useful.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter



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