Re: Proposal: Support custom authentication methods using hooks - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: Proposal: Support custom authentication methods using hooks
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Msg-id 2718414dc095b716e59e126c03af343997d14c7b.camel@j-davis.com
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In response to Re: Proposal: Support custom authentication methods using hooks  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Proposal: Support custom authentication methods using hooks  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, 2022-02-25 at 12:39 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> My point is that sending cleartext passwords over the wire is an
> insecure-by-definition protocol that we shouldn't be encouraging
> more use of.

We can require custom auth entries in pg_hba.conf to also specify
local, hostssl or hostgssenc.

It might annoy people who have a network secured at some other layer,
or who have the client on the same machine as the host. We could allow
plain "host" if someone specifies "customplain" explicitly.

Regards,
    Jeff Davis





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