Re: Encrypting pg_shadow passwords

> On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:34:51PM +0800, Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
> > At 12:51 AM 26-06-2001 -0400, Jim Mercer wrote:
> > >this is not so much an enhancement, but a correction of what i think the
> > >original "password" authentication scheme was supposed to allow.
> >
> > Yep it's a correction. pg_shadow shouldn't have been in plaintext in the
> > first place.
> >
> > host all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 password
> > should have meant check crypted passwords in pg_shadow.
> >
> > Given your suggestion, what happens when someone does an ALTER USER ...
> > WITH PASSWORD ....?
> >
> > Might it be too late to do a fix?
>
> i didn't want to change things too much. in the case of ALTER USER, the
> code would need to encrypt the password beforehand, either inline, or
> using a pgsql-contrib crypt() function. (i have this if you want it)
>
> the fix is for the authentication behaviour, not the adminitrative interface
> (ie. ALTER USER).

But the fix disables crypt authentication, at least until we do double
encryption.

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