| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Jeff Davis <list-pgsql-general(at)dynworks(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Travis Bauer <trbauer(at)indiana(dot)edu>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [general] Permissions |
| Date: | 2001-11-13 01:08:54 |
| Message-ID: | 200111130108.fAD18sY18831@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> On Monday 12 November 2001 03:16 pm, you wrote:
> > Thank you. This worked. In testing it out, I noticed that postgres only
> > considers the first eight charaters of the password. So
> >
> > abcdefghijklm
> > abcdefghmlkji
> >
> > are considered the same by postgres. Is that correct?
>
> Well... sort of. It isn't so much Postgres as crypt(). crypt() only hashes
> the first 8 characters. I wonder if postgres supports md5 encryption instead?
> md5 is considered more secure and allows for longer passwords.
7.2 will have MD5, and in all interfaces, including jdbc and odbc.
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