| From: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: password_encryption, default and 'plain' support |
| Date: | 2017-05-04 11:37:15 |
| Message-ID: | 5ffa6845-7026-e376-2877-0b2afb0f908a@iki.fi |
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On 05/03/2017 08:40 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> The other question I can think to ask is what will happen during
> pg_upgrade, given an existing installation with one or more passwords
> stored plain. If the answer is "silently convert to MD5", I'd be
> good with that.
Yes, it will silently convert to MD5. That happened even on earlier
versions, if you had password_encryption=on in the new cluster (which
was the default).
I'm planning to go ahead with the attached patch for this (removing
password_encryption='plain' support, but keeping the default as 'md5').
- Heikki
| Attachment | Content-Type | Size |
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| 0001-Remove-support-for-password_encryption-off-plain.patch | text/x-diff | 44.9 KB |
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