Re: password_encryption default

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: "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>, 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: 2020-05-27 06:29:25
Message-ID: 94b2c23e-71ff-641a-0873-5833e18d3e03@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2020-05-27 08:00, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 10:25:25AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Yeah, I was too enthusiastic about removing that. Here is a better patch.
>
> + as an MD5 hash. (<literal>on</literal> is also accepted, as an alias
> + for <literal>md5</literal>.) The default is
> + <literal>scram-sha-256</literal>.
> Shouldn't password_encryption = on/true/1/yes be an equivalent of
> scram-sha-256 as the default gets changed?

I think these are mostly legacy options anyway, so if we wanted to make
a change, we should remove them.

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