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Bruce Momjian ee85595d46 > Please find enclose a submission to fix these problems. > > The patch adds missing the "libpgport.a" file to the installation under > "install-all-headers". It is needed by some contribs. I install the > library in "pkglibdir", but I was wondering whether it should be "libdir"? > I was wondering also whether it would make sense to have a "libpgport.so"? > > It fixes various macros which are used by contrib makefiles, especially > libpq_*dir and LDFLAGS when used under PGXS. It seems to me that they are > needed to > > It adds the ability to test and use PGXS with contribs, with "make > USE_PGXS=1". Without the macro, this is exactly as before, there should be > no difference, esp. wrt the vpath feature that seemed broken by previous > submission. So it should not harm anybody, and it is useful at least to me. > > It fixes some inconsistencies in various contrib makefiles > (useless override, ":=" instead of "="). Fabien COELHO		2004-08-20 20:13:10 +00:00
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chkpass.c	make sure the $Id tags are converted to $PostgreSQL as well ...	2003-11-29 22:41:33 +00:00
chkpass.sql.in	$Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ...	2003-11-29 19:52:15 +00:00
Makefile	> Please find enclose a submission to fix these problems.	2004-08-20 20:13:10 +00:00
README.chkpass	$Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ...	2003-11-29 19:52:15 +00:00

README.chkpass

$PostgreSQL: pgsql/contrib/chkpass/README.chkpass,v 1.2 2003/11/29 19:51:19 pgsql Exp $

Chkpass is a password type that is automatically checked and converted upon
entry.  It is stored encrypted.  To compare, simply compare agains a clear
text password and the comparison function will encrypt it before comparing.
It also returns an error if the code determines that the password is easily
crackable.  This is currently a stub that does nothing.

I haven't worried about making this type indexable.  I doubt that anyone
would ever need to sort a file in order of encrypted password.

If you precede the string with a colon, the encryption and checking are
skipped so that you can enter existing passwords into the field.

On output, a colon is prepended.  This makes it possible to dump and reload
passwords without re-encrypting them.  If you want the password (encrypted)
without the colon then use the raw() function.  This allows you to use the
type with things like Apache's Auth_PostgreSQL module.

D'Arcy J.M. Cain
darcy@druid.net