Re: passwd / pg_hba.conf

From: Patrick Welche <prlw1(at)newn(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: passwd / pg_hba.conf
Date: 2002-03-04 16:49:42
Message-ID: 20020304164942.H10429@quartz.newn.cam.ac.uk
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On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 12:40:54PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Patrick Welche wrote:
> > # password: Authentication is done by matching a password supplied
> > # in clear by the host. If no AUTH_ARGUMENT is used, the
> > # password is compared with the user's entry in the
> > # pg_shadow table.
> >
> > It seems to me that this doesn't work for encrypted passwords stored in
> > pg_shadow? The crypt: entry specifically mentions not storing encrypted
> > passwords.. Just checking here, as it's a windoze box connecting with ODBC
> > that has the problem, all the unix boxen are happy with md5 and encrypted
> > passwords, so there could be many other causes for it to be unhappy..
>
> Only newer 7.2 ODBC drivers have code to handle MD5 passwords, and ODBC
> never handled crypt passwords, so this may be your problem.

That't it - upgrading from odbc 7.01.0007 to 7.01.0009 got the windoze
clients happily using md5 too.

Thanks,

Patrick

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