From: Paul Roberts <paul.roberts@trinity-bris.ac.uk>
To: Byron Nikolaidis <byronn@insightdist.com>
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] M$oft Win95, ODBC and 'crypt-ed' Passwords
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 08:35:31 +0100
Message-ID: <357B9443.376EFE16@trinity-bris.ac.uk> (raw)
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Byron Nikolaidis wrote:
> Paul Roberts wrote:
>
> > ODBC is working fine. However, I'm none-too-keen on routinely sending
> > unencrypted passwords over the Internet link between the different sites
> > at the moment of connection.
> >
> > It also offers crypt / decrypt, which UN&X/Linux could offer, but is
> > there a M$ en-crypting solution?
> >
>
> Currently, the odbc driver can't handle the encrypting passwords option of
> authentication.
> When the request comes back from postgres to encrypt the password with the
> "salt", the driver will just error out, saying that authentication type is
> not supported. Same for kerberos 4/5 authentication.
>
> I hope to add encrypted passwords someday.
>
> I noticed the jdbc driver has some encryption algorithm built in. Can
> someone please elaborate on that, like where did you get it, or did you
> write it, etc??
OK, that's fine. I gather what you have in mind is that the driver would do
the crypting - neat!
BTW the driver is great! As a complete newbie in both postgreSQL and ODBC
terms, I got it up with no pain. (The only glitch was needing to run
postmaster with -i, which subsequently looking at this list seems to be an old
chestnut.)
Paul
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