[Pgpool-general] master_slave_mode problem

David Darville ml at darville.vm.bytemark.co.uk
Mon Jun 6 09:06:36 GMT 2005


On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 05:56:07PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:

> The MD5 auth method requires a "salt" sent from PostgreSQL server in
> the authentication phase. Unfortunately the salt varies time to time,
> server to server, and it confuses the client, since obvioulsy it can
> only accept one salt at a time. The only solution is using "clear
> password" authentication or trust instead of MD5.

That makes sense, but trust is not an option, and I do not like to send
passwords in cleartext over the wire - but "clear password" over ssl would
be an potion.
Does pgpool support ssl encryption of the connections to the backend
servers?

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David Darville


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