From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>
Cc: Henk van Lingen <henkvl@cs.uu.nl>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ODBC and crypted passwords
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 13:31:10 -0400
Message-ID: <9661.955301470@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <215896B6B5E1CF11BC5600805FFEA82103046150@sirius.edu.sollentuna.se>
References: <215896B6B5E1CF11BC5600805FFEA82103046150@sirius.edu.sollentuna.se>
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
reply via email
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Cc: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, mha@sollentuna.net, henkvl@cs.uu.nl
Subject: Re: ODBC and crypted passwords
In-Reply-To: <9661.955301470@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
This inbox is served by DDX for PostgreSQL; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox