On Wednesday 16 January 2008 08:32, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > ( Slightly OT - chkpass uses crypt(). Maybe that should be upgraded to > use md5 or some more modern hashing function. )
Some versions of crypt() will generate md5 hashes if you start the salt with $1$<salt>$. I know this to work on FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Fedora core, and I believe it also works on other Linux distributions and Solaris. I have a patch to chkpass.c which will do this based on a custom GUC. The nice thing about this is that it continues to work with mod_auth_pgsql. I did have to change the on-disk representation to fit in the extra data. D'Arcy, if you're interested I'll send you a patch. -- Patrick TJ McPhee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly