Re: pg_shadow password

]Eduardo Gargiulo wrote:

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> Hi all, this is my first message to the list.
>
> My question is how can i hide or encrypt the passwd field in pg_shadow?
> I remember some PASSWORD() function to do that in old versions of
> pgsql, but it didn't work on my db. (7.0.2)

Use CREATE/ALTER USER username WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'test';
^^^^^^^^^
or change the postgresql.conf variable:

password_encryption = true

and passwords will be stored encrypted without the ENCRYPTED keyword.

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