Re: chkpass

From: Markus Bengts <markus(at)click3(dot)jsp(dot)fi>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: chkpass
Date: 2003-01-08 18:47:59
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.40.0301082034420.15634-100000@click3.jsp.fi
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On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Markus wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I have just done an rpm-installation of postgresql-7.3.1-1PGDG and
> postgresql-contrib-7.3.1-1PGDG.
>
> The documentation says that chkpass is a password type for storing and
> comparing encrypted passwords. What should I do to be able to create a
> table with a field of type chkpass?
>
> create table passtable (username varchar(30), passwd chkpass);
>
> does not work.
>

Can someone help me use this data type? Is it already implemented, or is
there something else in the shared library file? I have tried

load '/usr/lib/pgsql/chkpass.so';

but the type is not available in the pg_type system catalog. Can I somehow
add it with create type?

> Markus
>

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  • chkpass at 2003-01-05 13:34:25 from Markus Bengts

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