Re: Storing passwords

Can Postgres JDBC driver encrypt a password before sending and inserting
it into the password column?

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net]
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 1:32 PM
To: Oleg Lebedev
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Storing passwords

Oleg Lebedev writes:

> My application needs to store user names and passwords in the database

> via JDBC connection. What is the right way to do this?

One table, one column for the name, one column for the password.

> What should be the database type of the password column?

text or bytea, depending on how you encrypt it.

> How do I encrypt the password before sending it to the database?

Check out contrib/pgcrypto.

> What other database settings need to be enabled for this to work?

None.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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