Re: pgAdmin III 1.6.2 sends plaintext password

patrimith wrote: <blockquote cite="mid8994189.post@talk.nabble.com" type="cite"><pre wrap="">
Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote: </pre><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">What is the value of
"password_encryption"in your PostgreSQL server's 
 
postgresql.conf file?

[root@byron ~]# cat /endeavour/dbstore/postgresql.conf|grep 
'password_encryption'
password_encryption = on
[root@byron ~]#
   </pre></blockquote><pre wrap="">
That's the value in my PostgreSQL server's postgresql.conf.

Are you saying that pgAdmin knows the password_encryption setting for the
server? </pre></blockquote><br /> I'm not sure, but I'd hazard a guess it's the underlying libpq library that during
thehandshake works out which authentication scheme to use.<br /> How was your user created?  When you add a new login
role,it stores the encrypted password in the login profile:<br /><br /> CREATE ROLE test LOGIN ENCRYPTED PASSWORD
'md505a671c66aefea124cc08b76ea6d30bb'<br/>   NOINHERIT<br />    VALID UNTIL 'infinity';<br /><br /> If the value of
password_encryptionwas set to off when the user was created, I'd guess it would create it with a plain-text password
(not100% sure.)<br /><br /><blockquote cite="mid8994189.post@talk.nabble.com" type="cite"><pre wrap="">
 
I'd like to be able to connect using both plaintext and md5-encrypted
passwords to the same server depending on the environment in which the
client lives. </pre></blockquote><br /> Create a different line in pg_hba.conf for each host environment (network IP
range),using the relevant "password" or "md5" keyword.<br /><br /> Andy.<br />