| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Brett McCormick <brett(at)work(dot)chicken(dot)org>, jwieck(at)debis(dot)com, Andreas(dot)Zeugswetter(at)telecom(dot)at, pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Solution to the pg_user passwd problem !?? (c) |
| Date: | 1998-02-19 18:34:01 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.NEB.3.95.980219133350.17102V-100000@hub.org |
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On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> >
> > Have we considering using the unix crypt function for passwords? That
> > way it wouldn't matter (as much) if people saw the password, and would
> > still be (somewhat less) secure.
> >
> > On Thu, 19 February 1998, at 15:55:07, Jan Wieck wrote:
>
> I don't know what the problem with using crypt was. It may be because
> he passes a random salt to the user, and the user makes the password
> packet with the given salt and returns it to the backend. If we use
> crypt, we have to send a plaintext password over the network, don't we?
But, aren't we doing that now?
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