Thread: pg_shadow password

Hi all, this is my first message to the list.

My question is how can i hide or encrypt the passwd field in pg_shadow?
I remember some PASSWORD() function to do that in old versions of
pgsql, but it didn't work on my db. (7.0.2)

TIA

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Eduardo Gargiulo
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> Hi all, this is my first message to the list.
> 
> My question is how can i hide or encrypt the passwd field in pg_shadow?
> I remember some PASSWORD() function to do that in old versions of
> pgsql, but it didn't work on my db. (7.0.2)

Use CREATE/ALTER USER username WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'test';                            ^^^^^^^^^
or change the postgresql.conf variable:
password_encryption = true

and passwords will be stored encrypted without the ENCRYPTED keyword.

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