Re: MD5 Authentication

From: Rafael Martinez <r(dot)m(dot)guerrero(at)usit(dot)uio(dot)no>
To: Raimon Fernandez <coder(at)montx(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: MD5 Authentication
Date: 2009-11-05 17:02:06
Message-ID: 4AF3050E.7060902@usit.uio.no
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Raimon Fernandez wrote:
>
> On 05/11/2009, at 16:49, Rafael Martinez wrote:
>
>>
>> The md5 authentication in PostgreSQL works this way:
>>
>> server -------------- 4-byte token ---------------------------> client
>> server <--- "md5" + md5(md5(password + username) + token) ---- client
>
> Where did gou get this ?
>
> I can't find it in the docs ...
>

From an e-mail from Tom Lane about this:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-novice/2003-05/msg00305.php

regards,
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Rafael Martinez, <r(dot)m(dot)guerrero(at)usit(dot)uio(dot)no>
Center for Information Technology Services
University of Oslo, Norway

PGP Public Key: http://folk.uio.no/rafael/

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