Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A1182E0051 for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 16:57:05 -0300 (ADT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 79924-01 for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 16:56:46 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from BRUBLUmx13.mactelecom.net (BRUBLUmx13.mactelecom.net [217.64.240.20]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F33E52E0042 for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 16:56:49 -0300 (ADT) Received: by BRUBLUmx13.mactelecom.net (Postfix, from userid 505) id D32DA2D3C34; Tue, 6 May 2008 21:56:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.eurofer.be (217.64.254.218.mactelecom.net [217.64.254.218]) by BRUBLUmx13.mactelecom.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD2AE2D3C43; Tue, 6 May 2008 21:56:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.5.6] by smtp.eurofer.be with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JtTH6-00079f-5l; Tue, 06 May 2008 21:56:46 +0200 Message-ID: <4820B7EB.7050902@eurofer.be> Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 21:56:27 +0200 From: Guy Deleeuw User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080227) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Lane CC: Marcelo Martins , pgsql-admin@postgresql.org References: <48202DE2.20805@eurofer.be> <7A9FA81F-5F0F-4CD0-B42A-AE9CB7B3C941@zeroaccess.org> <48209C58.6020000@eurofer.be> <4820A3BC.9030604@eurofer.be> <17562.1210101927@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <17562.1210101927@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam_score: -3.9 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.5.6 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: G.De_Leeuw@eurofer.be Subject: Re: PQconnectdb question and md5 password X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on smtp.eurofer.be) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200805/44 X-Sequence-Number: 29128 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