Re: Encrypting pg_shadow passwords

On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Vince Vielhaber wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> writes:
> > >> More to the point, how does the postmaster know that it's now dealing
> > >> with encrypted passwords and must use the double-salt auth method?
> >
> > > The first three characters are md5 in the code I sent Bruce.
> >
> > Uh ... so if I use a password that starts with "md5", it breaks?
>
> yup.

Actually let me elaborate.  If you use a password that starts with
md5 AND is 35 characters in length.

Vince.
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