| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tony Caduto <tony_caduto(at)amsoftwaredesign(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Password issue revisited |
| Date: | 2007-02-20 19:33:00 |
| Message-ID: | 45DB4CEC.1050005@hagander.net |
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Dave Page wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
>> Just to make things clear, this wouldn't be about another auth method.
>> Windows has an API to store arbitrary passwords in a "secure way". At
>> least it does in XP+, not sure if it was in 2000.
>
> Would it really solve Tony's problem though? I'm not familiar with the
> API you're thinking of, but do be useful to us it must be able to give
> the unencrypted passwords back to us, and therefore anything else
> pretending to be us.
yeah, but it pops up a GUI notification for you. It's what IE uses to
store things like passports. It's also used, IIRC, by the new RDP client
that's available, and a few more.
Did a quick check, and it's XP/2003 only. See
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302353.aspx.
//Magnus
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