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From: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
To: DEV <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Database users Passwords
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:54:41 -0700
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <008101c6f20c$f6babb80$0b01a8c0@LT003>
References: <008101c6f20c$f6babb80$0b01a8c0@LT003>

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 12:54 -0400, DEV wrote:
> Okay but the issue I have is that I have the passwords already generated and
> in crypt() format and would love to just use them if at all possible?
> 

PostgreSQL won't doesn't recognize crypt passwords, as far as I know.
That means that it's pretty much impossible.

Use a password recovery tool to get the plain text back, and encrypt it
using md5.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis

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