Re: You're on SecurityFocus.com for the cleartext passwords.

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>, 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 20:22:03
Message-ID: 200005062022.QAA23134@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Depending on libcrypt is pretty painful even in Unix environments;
> have you seen what we have to do to get it to work in shared-library
> contexts, on machines where libcrypt is a separate shlib and not part of
> libc? Yech. We could get rid of a bunch of cruft in the makefiles by
> abandoning crypt() ...

Agreed.

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