From: | Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Encrypting pg_shadow passwords |
Date: | 2001-06-15 18:31:04 |
Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.30.0106151429540.11597-100000@paprika.michvhf.com |
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On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com> writes:
> > >> More to the point, how does the postmaster know that it's now dealing
> > >> with encrypted passwords and must use the double-salt auth method?
> >
> > > The first three characters are md5 in the code I sent Bruce.
> >
> > Uh ... so if I use a password that starts with "md5", it breaks?
>
> yup.
Actually let me elaborate. If you use a password that starts with
md5 AND is 35 characters in length.
Vince.
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