Re: Re: Encrypting pg_shadow passwords

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jim Mercer <jim(at)reptiles(dot)org>, Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: Encrypting pg_shadow passwords
Date: 2001-06-26 15:05:55
Message-ID: 200106261505.f5QF5tE06950@candle.pha.pa.us
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> My take on the matter is that we shouldn't invest any more effort in
> crypt-based solutions (here crypt means specifically crypt(3), it's
> not a generic term). The future is double encryption using MD5 ---
> or s/MD5/more-modern-hash-algorithm-of-your-choice/, the exact choice
> is irrelevant to my point. We ought to get off our duffs and implement
> that, then encourage people to migrate their clients ASAP. The crypt
> code will be supported for awhile longer, but strictly as a
> backwards-compatibility measure for old clients. There's no reason to
> spend any additional work on it.
>
> For the same reason I don't see any value in the idea of adding
> crypt-based double encryption to clients. We don't really want to
> support that over the long run, so why put effort into it?

The only reason to add double-crypt is so we can continue to use
/etc/passwd entries on systems that use crypt() in /etc/passwd.

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