I was meaning password encryption as Peter mentioned passwords in particular. I was just regurgitating something I saw about Bruce adding MD5 to the ODBC driver on the ODBC list. I didn't realize PgAdminII already supported it, my mistake sorry. - Stuart
-----Original Message----- From: Dave Page [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 December 2001 16:45 To: 'Henshall, Stuart - WCP'; 'Peter E. Chen'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [pgadmin-support] > -----Original Message----- > From: Henshall, Stuart - WCP > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 20 December 2001 16:11 > To: 'Peter E. Chen'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] > > > I havn't actually done it but I believe in 7.2 MD5 is a > possibility. Before this the ODBC driver just handled plain > text authentication. (Although as you said you can use > something like SSH tunneling) > - Stuart Do you mean password encryption using MD5 (which pgAdmin handles already) or connection encryption? If the latter, how does the ODBC driver handle it - through a connection string option? I know Bruce added some MD5 code, but I never really looked at it. /Dave. > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter E. Chen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 20 December 2001 15:55 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [pgadmin-support] > > > Hey All, > > Can anyone please tell me whether or not pgAdmin can use > encryption to connect to PostgresQL. I want to find a way to > connect to the database without sending clear text passwords. > > Is SSH tunneling the only way? > > Peter > > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? > http://archives.postgresql.org ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
