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Abuhujair Javed
Postgres FD Implementation
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Tom Lane
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Document that chkpass ignores password characters after the eighth.
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$PostgreSQL: pgsql/contrib/chkpass/README.chkpass,v 1.
2 2003/11/29 19:51:19 pgsq
l Exp $
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/contrib/chkpass/README.chkpass,v 1.
3 2005/09/23 15:05:04 tg
l Exp $
Chkpass is a password type that is automatically checked and converted upon
entry. It is stored encrypted. To compare, simply compare agains a clear
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@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ passwords without re-encrypting them. If you want the password (encrypted)
without the colon then use the raw() function. This allows you to use the
type with things like Apache's Auth_PostgreSQL module.
The encryption uses the standard Unix function crypt(), and so it suffers
from all the usual limitations of that function; notably that only the
first eight characters of a password are considered.
D'Arcy J.M. Cain
darcy@druid.net
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