Re: retrieving information about password from MS

Am Sonntag, den 12.06.2005, 23:12 +0200 schrieb Zlatko Matić:
> How could I retrieve information about actual user password, if md5
> method is set in pg_hba.conf ?
> I want to create VBA procedure that compares value in text box with
> actual password to determine if it is the same. As the password is
> encrypted (md5) I can't read it from pg_shaddow system table. How to
> retrieve decrypted value from pg_shaddow? Or at least, how to transfer
> value from text-box (MS Access) to Postgres so that Postgres can
> determine whether those two values are the same ?

You cant. md5 really is a hash, not encryption (there is no decryption)
You would just try to connect - postgres will tell you if the password
is wrong.