Re: pgAdmin III 1.6.2 sends plaintext password

Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote:

What is the value of "password_encryption" in your PostgreSQL server's
postgresql.conf file?

[root@byron ~]# cat /endeavour/dbstore/postgresql.conf|grep
'password_encryption'
password_encryption = on
[root@byron ~]#

That's the value in my PostgreSQL server's postgresql.conf.

Are you saying that pgAdmin knows the password_encryption setting for the server?

I'd like to be able to connect using both plaintext and md5-encrypted passwords to the same server depending on the environment in which the client lives.