>
> I cannot set up password authentication with encrypted passwords. With
> plaintext passwords auth works fine. So my guess is that I am using an
> incorrect password encryption program.
>
> What encryption utility should I use to store an MD5 password?
>
> I tried md5sum, but passwords encrypted with md5sum will not let me log in.
>
> I also tried classic "crypt", and I used Python's crypt module to
> encrypt my password, and it did not work either.
You don't manually encrypt them with anything. You enter them
plain-text and pgsql encrypts them before storage.
Jim