Re: You're on SecurityFocus.com for the cleartext passwords.

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Another idea is to add code to 7.1 to convert non-md5 shadow password
> > fields to md5 format.  Since we already have special handling to do
> > pg_pwd, we could do it there.  Seems like a plan.  MD5 format is all
> > hex digits of a specific length.  No way to get that confused with a
> > real password.
> 
> Well, if you're willing to depend on that, then there's no need for the
> WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD variant syntax: the existing syntax WITH
> PASSWORD could do it all, just by checking to see if the supplied
> password string looks like it's already been md5-ified.

Yes, I would like that.  Our syntax for CREATE USER is already pretty
large.  Why not do it automatically?

> The real trick would be to get this to happen during a COPY into
> pg_shadow --- if we did that, then dumps generated by 7.0 pg_dumpall
> would still work.  Perhaps a trigger on pg_shadow insert/update is
> the right place to check and md5-ify the password?  (If that's in place
> then neither CREATE nor ALTER USER would need to do anything special!)

We already have a trigger for pg_shadow updates to recreate pg_pwd.  
Not sure if that happens from COPY however.  I sure hope it does.

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