Re: Successor of MD5 authentication, let's use SCRAM

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Successor of MD5 authentication, let's use SCRAM
Date: 2012-10-12 22:58:57
Message-ID: 5078A0B1.8030401@agliodbs.com
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On 10/12/12 12:44 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Don't get me wrong- I really dislike that
> we don't have something better today for people who insist on password
> based auth, but perhaps we should be pushing harder for people to use
> SSL instead?

Problem is, the fact that setting up SSL correctly is hard is outside of
our control.

Unless we can give people a "run these three commands on each server and
you're now SSL authenticating" script, we can continue to expect the
majority of users not to use SSL. And I don't think that level of
simplicity is even theoretically possible.

--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

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