From 53a4fa6b0eeb2ca9133f4317046f862936d86eee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 02:35:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add more MD5 documentation now that odbc/jdbc support it. --- doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml | 15 +++++++-------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml index e3e0082241..6187fa2782 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - + Client Authentication @@ -236,13 +236,12 @@ hostssl database IP-address Like the md5 method but uses older crypt - authentication for pre-7.2 clients. md5 - is preferred, unless you need to support old clients that - do not have md5. The crypt - method is not compatible with encrypting passwords in - pg_shadow, and it has been observed to fail - when client and server machines have different implementations - of the crypt() library routine. + authentication for pre-7.2 clients. md5 is + preferred for 7.2 and later clients. The crypt + method is also not compatible with encrypting passwords in + pg_shadow, and may fail if client and server + machines have different implementations of the crypt() library + routine. -- 2.40.0