| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Sverre H(dot) Huseby" <sverrehu(at)online(dot)no>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: So we're in agreement.... |
| Date: | 2000-05-07 03:43:06 |
| Message-ID: | 200005070343.XAA28607@candle.pha.pa.us |
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>
> So, we're going to go with less security then is available on most Unix
> OSs?
>
> if we are going to do this, *please* just use the regular system
> crypt() function ... for those that are using MD5 for their passwords, at
> least as it is under FreeBSD, crypt() does either MD5 or DES depending on
> the system ...
>
We have to use MD5 with double-encription. We have to do that because
all clients need MD5 too, and we can't assume they all have DES.
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