[Pgpool-general] master_slave_mode problem

[Tatsuo Ishii]

> 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?

Currently no. Maybe SSH tunnel works for this purpose?
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Tatsuo Ishii