Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 12:16:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Richard Hodges <rh@matriplex.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Differences in crypt hash?
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On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > Richard Hodges <rh@matriplex.com> writes:
> > > The problem is that my Solaris client does not authenticate against
> > > my server (7.0.3 built on FreeBSD).
> > 
> > Indeed, one of the nasty things about the 'crypt' authentication method
> > is that it assumes the crypt() library call acts the same on both client
> > and server machine.  As you've just discovered, that ain't always so.
> > 
> > There have been plans for some time to supersede our present password
> > auth methods with something more secure and portable (probably MD5
> > double hashing at both ends).  I think Vince V. is working on that,
> > but I've not heard anything about it lately.  You can read all about it
> > in the pghackers mail archives if you care.
> 
> I am trying to get it done for 7.2.  I have Vince's md5 code.  I just
> need to plug it into the authentication code.

Thanks for the info, Tom and Bruce.  I'll just have to use cleartext
passwords in the meantime :-(  Yuck.

All the best,

-Richard

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