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Re: [HACKERS] Solution to the pg_user passwd problem !?? (c)

Peter T Mount <psqlhack@maidast.demon.co.uk>

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From: Peter T Mount <psqlhack@maidast.demon.co.uk>
To: Phil Thompson <phil@river-bank.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, brett@work.chicken.org, jwieck@debis.com, Andreas.Zeugswetter@telecom.at, pgsql-hackers@hub.org
Date: 1998-02-21T10:40:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Phil Thompson wrote:

> How UNIX specific is crypt()? At the moment the same password can be
> used with clients that support crypt(), and send the password encrypted,
> and those that don't, and send the password in clear.
> 
> If you want to store encrypted passwords then the encryption method used
> must be supported by all types of client - or be included as part of the
> PostgreSQL distribution.

To implement the current crypt authentication in the JDBC driver, we had
to supply a crypt class.

	src/interfaces/jdbc/postgresql/util/UnixCrypt.java

> 
> Phil
> 

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