Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Client-side password encryption

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>, Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>

Date: 2005-12-23T04:13:07Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> So, can I specify the password to pg_connect() as 
> 'md5127349123742342344234'?

Certainly not.  We'd hardly be worrying about obscuring the original
password if the encrypted version were enough to get in with.

			regards, tom lane