On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 01:32:53PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > On 05/11/2013 03:25 AM, Robert Haas wrote: > > Not really. We could potentially fix it by extending the wire > > protocol to allow the server to respond to the client's startup packet > > with a further challenge, and extend libpq to report that challenge > > back to the user and allow sending a response. But that would break > > on-the-wire compatibility, which we haven't done in a good 10 years, > > and certainly wouldn't be worthwhile just for this. > We were just talking about "things we'd like to do in wire protocol 4". > > Allowing multi-stage authentication has come up repeatedly and should > perhaps go on that list. The most obvious case being "ident auth failed, > demand md5".
Added to TODO. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
