Re: DB Access Restrictions

From: Tim Ellis <Tim(dot)Ellis(at)gamet(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: vwebtest(at)webhart(dot)deepnet(dot)cx, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: DB Access Restrictions
Date: 2002-08-21 23:20:43
Message-ID: 20020821192043.418d2b29.Tim.Ellis@gamet.com
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> If your network is not secure, I recommend MD5. In fact, we recommend
> MD5 with encrypted_passwords enabled in postgresql.conf in almost all
> cases. Encrypted passwords will be the default in 7.3.

psql seems to work flawlessly with MD5 passwords, which is no great
surprise.

The JDBC client doesn't seem to work. I had to go back to "password."

Is there something the client has to do with JDBC to make MD5 passwords
work? The particular client I'm talking about is DB Visualizer.

--
Tim Ellis
Senior Database Architect
Gamet, Inc.

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