| From: | John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com> |
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| To: | Berényi Gábor <ber_(at)freemail(dot)hu> |
| Cc: | pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: simple question |
| Date: | 2005-03-14 01:50:41 |
| Message-ID: | 78BA1F0E-942B-11D9-ACA1-000A95B03262@pgedit.com |
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On Mar 13, 2005, at 5:39 PM, Berényi Gábor wrote:
> I want to send a password __safely__ to the backend that does not
> support ssl, and want to know if libpq will encode it automatically if
> I
> just call PQconnectdb() with an __unencoded__ password and if I ask
> the server administrator to set up an md5 auth method for me in
> pg_hba.conf?
Yes. If you specify md5 in the pg_hba.conf file, that is what the
server will tell libpq to send.
If you have any concerns, try watching your session with something like
tcpflow.
John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL
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