Re: Postgres: pg_hba.conf, md5, pg_shadow, encrypted passwords

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Paul Tillotson <pntil(at)shentel(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres: pg_hba.conf, md5, pg_shadow, encrypted passwords
Date: 2005-04-21 18:35:45
Message-ID: 20050421183545.GD29028@ns.snowman.net
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* Andrew Dunstan (andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net) wrote:
> The docs say: "only md5 supports encrypted passwords stored in
> pg_shadow; the other two require unencrypted passwords to be stored
> there." So either your assertion that 'password' auth does not imply
> plaintext password storage is wrong, or the docs are.

The docs are wrong. Sorry, I knew that and forgot to mention it
explicitly previously. Using 'password' in pg_hba.conf while using
'with encrypted password'/md5 in pg_shadow works just fine.

Just tested here to make 100% sure, under 8.0.1.

Thanks,

Stephen

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