Re: protocol, md5 authentication

From: "Josh Close" <narshe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: protocol, md5 authentication
Date: 2006-02-22 16:53:45
Message-ID: 4a0cafe20602220853gc1da9a4gb91d8f3711cb4e50@mail.gmail.com
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> libpq implements it properly. I'd suggest looking at the client source.

Where would that be, in the postgres source? And what file? I'm really not
too familiar with C.

Also, I *think* I have this working correctly in my PQueue module, so if you
> don't mind a little Python:
>
> import md5
> pw = md5.new(self.password + self.keywords['user']).hexdigest()
> pw = 'md5' + md5.new (pw + authmsg.salt).hexdigest()
>
> self.password is the password given by the user.
> self.keywords['user'] is the user name.
> authmsg.salt is the salt given by the server.

Yeah, I love Python. That is actually the way I'm sending it also. I'm
connecting via .NET though. I'll have to double check some things.

-Josh

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