| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Fernando Moreno <azazel(dot)7(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: db_user_namespace, md5 and changing passwords |
| Date: | 2008-10-08 00:51:34 |
| Message-ID: | 20081008005134.GF19440@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Bruce Momjian escribió:
> Well, I posted about this in August with no one replying:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2008-08/msg00068.php
>
> Basically, there is a mismatch between what libpq and the backend think
> is the username, and that affects how MD5 uses the salt on the two sides
> of the connection.
I totally agree that this needs a redesign, but we must provide
something to replace it with, not just rip it off.
> The minimal solution would be to document this and print a proper
> error message.
Seems fair.
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