How to read cleartext user password from pgsql database

From: Eugene Prokopiev <prokopiev(at)stc(dot)donpac(dot)ru>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: How to read cleartext user password from pgsql database
Date: 2006-07-14 11:21:01
Message-ID: 44B77E1D.3090409@stc.donpac.ru
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Hi,

Is it possible to read cleartext user password from pgsql database? In
this link
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/view-pg-user.html
explained that password always reads as ********. But I need to use
pgsql login/password as authentication info for another service.

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Thanks,
Eugene Prokopiev

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