Re: Re: Encrypting pg_shadow passwords

From: Jim Mercer <jim(at)reptiles(dot)org>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: Encrypting pg_shadow passwords
Date: 2001-06-26 18:50:23
Message-ID: 20010626145023.F14179@reptiles.org
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:05:55AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> The only reason to add double-crypt is so we can continue to use
> /etc/passwd entries on systems that use crypt() in /etc/passwd.

as someone else noted, freebsd's crypt() function does multiple types
types of crypto (DES, MD5, etc) based on a tag in the salt.

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