RE: ODBC and crypted passwords

From: Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "'Tom Lane'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Henk van Lingen <henkvl(at)cs(dot)uu(dot)nl>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: RE: ODBC and crypted passwords
Date: 2000-04-09 17:15:52
Message-ID: 215896B6B5E1CF11BC5600805FFEA82103046150@sirius.edu.sollentuna.se
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> > Is there something which makes a 'crypt' implementation hard?
>
> I imagine the problem is that he doesn't want to depend on the 'crypt'
> library, which is standard on Unixen but not (AFAIK) on Windows.
> Otherwise it'd be easy to transpose libpq's code into the odbc driver.
> (OTOH, I believe there are ports of libpq for Windows, so
> maybe crypt()
> is available there? Anyone know?)

Actually, the crypt()ed authentication is not supported on libpq for Win32.
I meant to do this, but I had completely forgotten...

//Magnus

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