From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Raúl Gutiérrez Sánchez <raul@laeff.esa.es>
Cc: PgSql-Admin Mailing List <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Password Encryption
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 18:51:36 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200301262351.h0QNpam17457@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E2EAA36.F5128518@laeff.esa.es>
Yes, it is. We now recommend MD5, and have since 7.2. The only way to
use crypt still is to store the password UNENCRYPTED in ALTER USER.
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Raúl Gutiérrez Sánchez wrote:
> I have tried to perform a cryp authentication but it seems not to work
> if the user passwords are stored md5-encrypted in the database. Is this
> behaviour normal?.
>
> Regards,
> Raul Gutierrez
>
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