Re: Successor of MD5 authentication, let's use SCRAM - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: Successor of MD5 authentication, let's use SCRAM
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Msg-id 20121022172547.GM29165@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: Successor of MD5 authentication, let's use SCRAM  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: Successor of MD5 authentication, let's use SCRAM  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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* Peter Eisentraut (peter_e@gmx.net) wrote:
> On 10/12/12 3:44 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > In general, I think it's good to build on existing implementations where
> > possible.  Perhaps we could even consider using something which already
> > exists for this?
>
> Sounds like SASL to me.

aiui, that would allow us to support SCRAM and we could support
Kerberos/GSSAPI under SASL as well...  Not sure how comfortable folks
would be with moving to that though.
Thanks,
    Stephen

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