Re: [HACKERS] Solution to the pg_user passwd problem !?? (c)

From: Peter T Mount <psqlhack(at)maidast(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Phil Thompson <phil(at)river-bank(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, brett(at)work(dot)chicken(dot)org, jwieck(at)debis(dot)com, Andreas(dot)Zeugswetter(at)telecom(dot)at, pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Solution to the pg_user passwd problem !?? (c)
Date: 1998-02-21 10:40:24
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.3.95.980221103622.7169A-100000@maidast
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On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Phil Thompson wrote:

> How UNIX specific is crypt()? At the moment the same password can be
> used with clients that support crypt(), and send the password encrypted,
> and those that don't, and send the password in clear.
>
> If you want to store encrypted passwords then the encryption method used
> must be supported by all types of client - or be included as part of the
> PostgreSQL distribution.

To implement the current crypt authentication in the JDBC driver, we had
to supply a crypt class.

src/interfaces/jdbc/postgresql/util/UnixCrypt.java

>
> Phil
>

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