Re: [general] Permissions

> On Monday 12 November 2001 03:16 pm, you wrote:
> > Thank you.  This worked.  In testing it out, I noticed that postgres only
> > considers the first eight charaters of the password.  So
> >
> > abcdefghijklm
> > abcdefghmlkji
> >
> > are considered the same by postgres.  Is that correct?
>
> Well... sort of. It isn't so much Postgres as crypt(). crypt() only hashes
> the first 8 characters. I wonder if postgres supports md5 encryption instead?
> md5 is considered more secure and allows for longer passwords.

7.2 will have MD5, and in all interfaces, including jdbc and odbc.

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