Re: wrong password accepted
От | Raphael Bauduin |
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Тема | Re: wrong password accepted |
Дата | |
Msg-id | 20030829152602.GA31054@raphael обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: wrong password accepted (Sam Barnett-Cormack <s.barnett-cormack@lancaster.ac.uk>) |
Список | pgsql-admin |
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 02:22:07PM +0100, Sam Barnett-Cormack wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Raphael Bauduin wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > this is a strange situation I just discovered on a postgresql > > 7.2.1-2woody2 (Debian as you can see...). I use pg_hba to specify > > password ahtentications for clients. HEre's the line: > > host all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.0 password pass-file > > > > I just discovered that when I use the correct password to whach I append > > text, it is accepted (though this is not correct...) > > For example, if my password is postgres, the following will also be > > accepted: postgresql, postgresblabla, postgres2 ...... but it will > > reject postgrex eg. > > If the password mechanism uses standard crypt() passwords, then only the > first eight letters count. It just happens that postgres is eight > letters long. > > This has been a public service educated guess. It seems this was a good guess. Thanks for this simple and efficient answer! :-) Raph
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