On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > MD5(MD5(username+user_salt)+random_salt)
>
> > Postmaster takes its pg_shadow MD5(username+user_salt) and does another
> > MD5 with the random salt and compares it with what was sent from the
> > client.
>
> Doesn't seem quite right ... where's the password?
I had assumed Bruce was referring to the password with user_salt.
Vince.
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