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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2001-11-12 02:35:16 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2001-11-12 02:35:16 +0000 |
| commit | 53a4fa6b0eeb2ca9133f4317046f862936d86eee (patch) | |
| tree | efdd1d67dd06f74f0cf79ce5801ba815aef869b6 | |
| parent | 67a56f228680754d3b5784b642c4300f518e715c (diff) | |
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Add more MD5 documentation now that odbc/jdbc support it.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml | 15 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml index e3e00822412..6187fa27820 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.24 2001/11/08 23:36:18 petere Exp $ --> +<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.25 2001/11/12 02:35:16 momjian Exp $ --> <chapter id="client-authentication"> <title>Client Authentication</title> @@ -236,13 +236,12 @@ hostssl <replaceable>database</replaceable> <replaceable>IP-address</replaceable <listitem> <para> Like the <literal>md5</literal> method but uses older crypt - authentication for pre-7.2 clients. <literal>md5</literal> - is preferred, unless you need to support old clients that - do not have <literal>md5</literal>. The <literal>crypt</> - method is not compatible with encrypting passwords in - <filename>pg_shadow</>, and it has been observed to fail - when client and server machines have different implementations - of the crypt() library routine. + authentication for pre-7.2 clients. <literal>md5</literal> is + preferred for 7.2 and later clients. The <literal>crypt</> + method is also not compatible with encrypting passwords in + <filename>pg_shadow</>, and may fail if client and server + machines have different implementations of the crypt() library + routine. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> |