Re: Open 7.3 items

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Ron Snyder wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes, is that your pg_hba.conf line?  'password' is insecure over
> > > networks you don't trust.
> >
> > Yes, we're using 'password password' in our pg_hba.conf file.  I trust my
> > network (so far).
>
> That is another major limitation to secondary password files.  In fact,
> md5 will not even work because we assume the username is used as the
> salt for the md5 encryption.  We don't store the salt as part of the
> encrypted password like crypt does.
>
> This was another reason secondary password files were discouraged.

discouraged??  where? :)