Re: Open 7.3 items

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Ron Snyder wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Yes, is that your pg_hba.conf line? 'password' is insecure over
> > > > networks you don't trust.
> > >
> > > Yes, we're using 'password password' in our pg_hba.conf file. I trust my
> > > network (so far).
> >
> > That is another major limitation to secondary password files. In fact,
> > md5 will not even work because we assume the username is used as the
> > salt for the md5 encryption. We don't store the salt as part of the
> > encrypted password like crypt does.
> >
> > This was another reason secondary password files were discouraged.
>
> discouraged?? where? :)

Well. I meant that they had very limited usefulness. You had to trust
your network.

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