| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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| To: | Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, samay sharma <smilingsamay(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Proposal: Support custom authentication methods using hooks |
| Date: | 2022-03-08 20:28:08 |
| Message-ID: | 20220308202807.GT10577@tamriel.snowman.net |
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Greetings,
* Jeff Davis (pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com) wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-03-02 at 10:54 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > It's our decision what we want to support and maintain in the code
> > base
> > and what we don't.
>
> That might be an argument in favor of custom auth methods, because we
> could move built-in methods that we don't like into a contrib module
> that implements it as a custom auth method.
Feel like I already answered this but just to be clear- I don't view
that as actually addressing the issue since we'd still be maintaining
and distributing insecure auth methods.
Thanks,
Stephen
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