Re: Re: Proposal for encrypting pg_shadow passwords

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: Proposal for encrypting pg_shadow passwords
Date: 2001-08-15 17:59:49
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0108151958000.677-100000@peter.localdomain
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Bruce Momjian writes:

> two new files (backend/libpq/md5.c and include/libpq/md5.h)
> which implement MD5 encryption (from Vince with cleanups)

How about adding these to backend/utils/adt, so we can provide an SQL md5
function, just for completeness. (Might be useful to manually verify the
passwords in pg_shadow or something.) There's already code for this in
contrib/pgcrypto, btw.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

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