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Is it possible to create a user in PostgreSQL without providing the plain text password (ideally, I would like to be able to create a user providing only its password crypted with sha-256) ? What I would like to do is to create a user with something like that : CREATE USER "martin" WITH PASSWORD '$6$kH3l2bj8iT$KKrTAKDF4OoE7w.oy(...)BPwcTBN/V42hqE.'; Is there some way to do that ? Thank you for your help. You may provide the password already hashed with md5 , as said in the doc ( CREATE ROLE ): ENCRYPTED UNENCRYPTED These key words control whether the password is stored encrypted in the system

Anyone knows if a mime type exists for markdown? I guess it is plain-text but is there a more specific one? SFEley There is no official standard type, but text/markdown seems to be the most common de facto type. Most browsers and other reasonably sophisticated clients will likely see the text/ part and default to text/plain anyway, so there's not much difference. One caveat, though: all types under the text/ hiearchy default to ISO-8859-1 for their character type in the relevant RFC standards. Most of the world has since moved on to UTF-8 . So unless you're positive you won't be using any

Using Google Apps Script, I want to set the format for a Google Sheets cell to plain text. The reason I want to do this is because I want to show a date in the U.S. date format (MM/DD/YYYY). [We can assume the locale in the OP's Google account is set to use DD/MM/YYYY, a more common date format. –Ed.] I create the string like this: var thisDate = Utilities.formatDate (new Date (), SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet (). getSpreadsheetTimeZone (), "MM / d / yyyy"); ... which returns the date in the U.S. format, 06/13/2012 , which is what I want. However, when I set the value of a cell to that

I've always been of the impression that storing passwords in a database as plain text is (as someone else here put it) a Very Bad Thing™. Historically, most of our server-side coding needs have been contracted out to a group of programmers. They store passwords in MySQL databases in plain text. As the resident code monkey (incidentally, the first server-side-savvy monkey to work here, so I'm inheriting the earth, so to speak) I have this pit of the stomach feeling that it's my bum that will be on the line when this plain text nonsense is exploited. I tried to explain to my boss how very very

If on a login screen user submits a form with his username and password, the password is sent in plain text (even with POST, correct me if I am wrong). So the question is what is the right way to protect the user and his password against the third party who might be eavesdropping on the communication data? I am aware that HTTPS is asolution to the problem, but is there any way to ensure at least some level of security using standard HTTP protocol (POST request)? (perhaps using javascript in some way) EDIT I may have left out some important things. What I was about was a page - that is PHP