| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, "Sverre H(dot) Huseby" <sverrehu(at)online(dot)no>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: You're on SecurityFocus.com for the cleartext passwords. |
| Date: | 2000-05-06 17:21:16 |
| Message-ID: | 200005061721.NAA18123@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> But what I'm proposing will let ALL clients send an encrypted password
> over the wire and we can also store them encrypted. By comparing twice
> we can maintain backward compatibility. The backend would compare the
> password received with the stored md5 password and compare the received
> password after md5ing it in case it was sent clear-text.
But you can do that with our current system. Store them in pg_shadow
using unix password format. If a cleartext password comes in, crypt it
using the pg_shadow salt and compare them.
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