Re: Newbie confused about pg_hba/md5 and password field

Bruce,
Thanks for the information.  On further testing I indeed cannot 
reproduce the issue with a standalone program, only with the authlib 
that I'm trying to get to work.  I did learn that my thinking was wrong 
though.  I thought the AUTH_TYPE in pg_hba.conf was for transport only, 
having nothing to do with the encryption used to encrypt passwords in 
pg_shadow.  That does not appear to be the case as if you use md5 in 
your pg_shadow and just "password" in your pg_hba.conf file you'll get 
an error.

I'll keep digging.  I am confident that my libpg.so is correct as this 
is a new installation of everything.

Thanks again for the feedback.

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>Sorry, this seems impossible: libpq's PQsetdbLogin() doesn't allow MD5
>passwords?  You shouldn't have to do anything special;  it should just
>accept the password.PQconnectdb() has the same handling as
>PQsetdbLogin().
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>Is it possible your libpq version is older than 7.2.1?
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>>Hello,
>>I'm pretty new to PostgreSQL in general and even newer to libpq.  I am 
>>trying to get a C program working (the authpgsql module in courier-imap) 
>>that uses PQsetdbLogin().  I've got 7.2.1 installed and running and have 
>>had no problem accessing it via JDBC.  I have encrypted passwords in 
>>pg_shadow and have "md5" set for the AUTH_TYPE in pg_hba.conf.  However, 
>>when using PQsetdbLogin the only way I could get a login to work was to 
>>use unencrypted passwords in pg_shadow and change pg_hba.conf to use 
>>"password" instead of "md5" for the database I want access to through 
>>authpgsql.
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>>Why is this?  Do I somehow have to md5 the clear text password before 
>>calling PQsetdbLogin()?  Does PQconnectdb() handle this and I should 
>>update the code?  I feel that the client code should be unaware of the 
>>over the wire encryption method used and the encryption method of the 
>>password in pg_shadow but I may be way off base on the underlying issue.
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any information.
>>
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