| From: | Jim Mercer <jim(at)reptiles(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg(at)redhat(dot)com>, 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 18:52:56 |
| Message-ID: | 20010626145256.G14179@reptiles.org |
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:30:11PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Haven't many systems (at least Linux and FreeBSD) switched from this
> > to other algorithms as default, like MD5? (and usually found in /etc/shadow)
>
> Yes, most BSD's are MD5. I wasn't sure about Linux. If it is md5 by
> default that would remove many sites from using crypt in secondary
> password files already.
while freebsd is now defaulting to MD5, the core function is still crypt().
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