Re: ODBC and crypted passwords

On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
 > Henk van Lingen <henkvl@cs.uu.nl> writes: > > I'm playing with the ODBC driver (which works fine) but I like
passwords> > to travel encrypted, which is not supported at the moment. >  > > Is there any work being done on this?
TheTODO says (in 1998) that the > > priority is low. Why is that? >  > I think that just means that Bryan doesn't care
aboutit very much ;-). > If you do, step right up and submit a patch.  The way things work around > here is that tasks
getdone when someone is motivated enough to do them.
 

I know, but I like to know what others know first :-)

Anyway, I looked around and...
 > > Is there something which makes a 'crypt' implementation hard? >  > I imagine the problem is that he doesn't want
todepend on the 'crypt' > library, which is standard on Unixen but not (AFAIK) on Windows. > Otherwise it'd be easy to
transposelibpq's code into the odbc driver.
 

didn't find a libcrypt but did find an ANSI C implementation of crypt(3)
here: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~mdipper/ I included this in connection.c,
installed visual C++, changed a few lines and it works for me.

If anyone is interested, you can find my connection.c and new DLL here:

http://www.cs.uu.nl/~henkvl/psqlodbc/

Regards,
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