From: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
To: Peter Mount <petermount@it.maidstone.gov.uk>
Cc: 'Henk van Lingen' <henkvl@cs.uu.nl>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ODBC and crypted passwords
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:46:51 +0300
Message-ID: <38F4460B.CBC6909B@tm.ee> (raw)
References: <1B3D5E532D18D311861A00600865478C70C446@exchange1.nt.maidstone.gov.uk>
Peter Mount wrote:
>
> One thing that may be useful, is not to check against the unix password
> file, but to use PAM. That way, you could even authenticate against the
> dreadded NT accounts, unix password file, dbm file etc...
>
> Anyhow, this is something to think about for the future ;-)
IMHO this defeats the purpose of crypt - not to send plaintext passwords
over the net.
OTOH, it could be done over a secure (SSL/TLS) channel of course.
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Hannu
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