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Re: Re: Encrypting pg_shadow passwords

Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>

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From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh@pop.jaring.my>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-06-26T18:50:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:05:55AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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.

as someone else noted, freebsd's crypt() function does multiple types
types of crypto (DES, MD5, etc) based on a tag in the salt.

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