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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:36:53 -0400
From: "David F. Skoll" <dfs@...ringpenguin.com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@...wman.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@...tgresql.org, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Postgres: pg_hba.conf, md5, pg_shadow, encrypted passwords


Stephen Frost wrote:

>   The md5 hash which is generated for and stored in pg_shadow does not
>   use a random salt but instead uses the username which can generally be
>   determined ahead of time (especially for the 'postgres' superuser
>   account).

I noted that this was a problem back in August, 2002:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2002-08/msg00253.php

Then, as now, the developers weren't very concerned.

Regards,

David.

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