On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I think the script idea may be best but it will have to be saved
> > somewhere so once you run it all future password changes are encrypted
> > in pg_shadow.
>
> More to the point, how does the postmaster know that it's now dealing
> with encrypted passwords and must use the double-salt auth method?
> Seems to me that this is not a simple matter of changing the data in one
> column of pg_shadow.
The first three characters are md5 in the code I sent Bruce. The
auth stuff starts looking at the 4th character of the password column
in pg_shadow.
Vince.
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