From: Guy Deleeuw <G.De_Leeuw@eurofer.be>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Marcelo Martins <pglists@zeroaccess.org>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: PQconnectdb question and md5 password
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 21:56:27 +0200
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Hello Tom
> No, you need to put the plain text of the password into the connInfo.
> Knowing the md5 doesn't prove you know the password.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
I just try to cancel the easy way to "string" the binary and extract the
password from my app.
A solution are to put the md5 string and not the clear password.
but if it's not possible, a follow another way.
Thanks for your respons.
Regards
Guy
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