Re: password encryption

I think what he was looking for was more along the lines of a generic sql
function that hashes a string, and not to update the system tables.

I actually wrote a replacement for the mysql PASSWORD() function that is
actually compatible with the hashing that mysql uses. If you would like a
copy of this function just let me know so I can extract it out of the a
bunch of other functions.

Aaron

On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Silesky Marketing Inc, Support wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I want to encrypt passwords with Postgresql the way mySQL does it with :
> >
> > UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('new_password') WHERE user='root';
>
> Check out the ALTER command.
>
> ALTER USER username
> [ WITH PASSWORD 'password' ]
> [ CREATEDB | NOCREATEDB ] [ CREATEUSER | NOCREATEUSER ]
> [ VALID UNTIL 'abstime' ]
>
>
> Rod
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