On 03/14/2017 03:15 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > On 03/14/2017 04:47 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >>> I'm not talking about changing the default, just having it be possible >>> to use \password with the new system as it was with the old, whatever >>> exactly we think that means. >> >> Seems to me the intended behavior of \password is to use the best >> available practice. So my guess is that it ought to use SCRAM when >> talking to a >= 10.0 server. What the previous password was ought >> to be irrelevant, even if it could find that out which it shouldn't >> be able to IMO. > > If the server isn't set up to do SCRAM authentication, i.e. there are no > "scram" entries in pg_hba.conf, and you set yourself a SCRAM verifier, > you have just locked yourself out of the system. I think that's a > non-starter. There needs to be some more intelligence in the decision.
Yes, this was exactly my concern. > It would be a lot more sensible, if there was a way to specify in > pg_hba.conf, "scram-or-md5". We punted on that for PostgreSQL 10, but > perhaps we should try to cram that in, after all. I was also thinking about that. Basically a primary method and a fallback. If that were the case, a gradual transition could happen, and if we want \password to enforce best practice it would be ok. Joe -- Crunchy Data - http://crunchydata.com PostgreSQL Support for Secure Enterprises Consulting, Training, & Open Source Development
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