Re: password_encryption default

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Vik Fearing <vik(at)postgresfriends(dot)org>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: password_encryption default
Date: 2020-05-26 08:25:25
Message-ID: 52ebc049-d2eb-dfe0-0ae2-6e166f16f280@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2020-05-25 17:57, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> I took a look over, it looks good. One question on the initdb.c diff:
>
> - if (strcmp(authmethodlocal, "scram-sha-256") == 0 ||
> - strcmp(authmethodhost, "scram-sha-256") == 0)
> - {
> - conflines = replace_token(conflines,
> - "#password_encryption = md5",
> - "password_encryption = scram-sha-256");
> - }
> -
>
> Would we reverse this, i.e. if someone chooses authmethodlocal to be
> "md5", we would then set "password_encryption = md5"?

Yeah, I was too enthusiastic about removing that. Here is a better patch.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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