From: Paul Roberts <paul.roberts@trinity-bris.ac.uk>
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: M$oft Win95, ODBC and 'crypt-ed' Passwords
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 08:40:23 +0100
Message-ID: <3574FDE7.20B5DBF0@trinity-bris.ac.uk> (raw)
Relative newbie here ....
I'm hoping to use PostgreSQL to host the busier tables on a Student
Administation DBMS for three small HE colleges which we're developing at
the moment. The front-end clients will be M$-Access on Win95/NT4.0
boxes.
ODBC is working fine. However, I'm none-too-keen on routinely sending
unencrypted passwords over the Internet link between the different sites
at the moment of connection.
One solution is to edit pg_hba.conf to mask host access on IP number and
trust the hosts. Errm, no thanks....
The other solution which works is to send open passwords over the link -
I'd rather not do this.
pg_hba.conf also offers ident server authentication : I know nothing of
this, but does it pertain to the M$ platform?
It also offers crypt / decrypt, which UN&X/Linux could offer, but is
there a M$ en-crypting solution?
Have any others found a way around this problem? Is there a best
solution?
Regards
Paul
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