Re: md5 authentication working?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Steve Bergman <steve(at)rueb(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: md5 authentication working?
Date: 2004-08-04 05:20:30
Message-ID: 17073.1091596830@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Steve Bergman <steve(at)rueb(dot)com> writes:
> So, is my information old, and md5 is "just standard" now?

It is default now. I think you'd need to say ALTER USER u WITH
UNENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'foo' to push a cleartext password into pg_shadow.
(There may also still be a postgresql.conf setting that affects this,
but I'm too lazy to go look.)

regards, tom lane

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