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From: Jorge Godoy <[email protected]>
To: Shane Ambler <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
Cc: DEV <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Database users Passwords
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:00:05 -0300
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Shane Ambler <[email protected]> writes:

> What Dev would want to look for (probably create) is a small script that will
> read his list of crypt passwords and un-crypt them into a create role string
> that is fed to psql.

Except that the hash used is unidirectional, i.e., there's no way to decrypt
it besides a brute force attack or something like that. 

If he's got, e.g., 10 users with strong passwords this kind of thing can take
some weeks.

-- 
Jorge Godoy      <[email protected]>

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