Re: Re: Proposal for encrypting pg_shadow passwords - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Re: Proposal for encrypting pg_shadow passwords
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0108151958000.677-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: Proposal for encrypting pg_shadow passwords  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian writes:

>     two new files (backend/libpq/md5.c and include/libpq/md5.h)
>         which implement MD5 encryption (from Vince with cleanups)

How about adding these to backend/utils/adt, so we can provide an SQL md5
function, just for completeness.  (Might be useful to manually verify the
passwords in pg_shadow or something.)  There's already code for this in
contrib/pgcrypto, btw.

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


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