From: Stephen Davies <scldad@sdc.com.au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Henk van Lingen <henkvl@cs.uu.nl>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org, Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>
Subject: Re: ODBC and crypted passwords
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 08:27:47 +0930
Message-ID: <200004092257.IAA30746@mustang.sdc.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> <9661.955301470@sss.pgh.pa.us>
I believe that the US export restrictions have been lifted.
cheers,
Stephen Davies.
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net> writes:
> >>>> Is there something which makes a 'crypt' implementation hard?
> >>
> >> I imagine the problem is that he doesn't want to depend on the 'crypt'
> >> library, which is standard on Unixen but not (AFAIK) on Windows.
> >> Otherwise it'd be easy to transpose libpq's code into the odbc driver.
> >> (OTOH, I believe there are ports of libpq for Windows, so
> >> maybe crypt() is available there? Anyone know?)
>
> > Actually, the crypt()ed authentication is not supported on libpq for Win32.
> > I meant to do this, but I had completely forgotten...
>
> Hmm. Can we find a freely-distributable version of libcrypt anywhere?
>
> (Actually, now that I think about it, I'm not entirely sure that crypt()
> implements exactly the same transformation on every Unix platform.
> It may be that you have to have a version of crypt() that matches the
> one on your server's platform. That would be a pain in the neck ...
> but if we did find an open-source libcrypt, maybe we could standardize
> on using it in preference to vendor crypts...)
>
> regards, tom lane
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