Re: MD5 authentication needs help - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: MD5 authentication needs help
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Msg-id 24626.1425503152@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: MD5 authentication needs help  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>> What happened to "possession of the contents of pg_authid is sufficient
>> to log in"?  I thought fixing that was one of the objectives here.

> Yes, it certainly was.  I think Bruce was thinking that we could simply
> hash what goes on to disk with an additional salt that's stored, but
> that wouldn't actually work without requiring a change to the wireline
> protocol, which is the basis of this entire line of discussion, in my
> view.

Hm, well, "don't change the wireline protocol" could be another wanna-have
... but if we want to stop using MD5, that's not really a realistic goal
is it?
        regards, tom lane



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