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

From John R Pierce
Subject Re: Successor of MD5 authentication, let's use SCRAM
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Msg-id 5078B8DB.8010400@hogranch.com
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In response to Re: Successor of MD5 authentication, let's use SCRAM  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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On 10/12/12 4:25 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Josh Berkus (josh@agliodbs.com) wrote:
>> >Unless we can give people a "run these three commands on each server and
>> >you're now SSL authenticating" script, we can continue to expect the
>> >majority of users not to use SSL.  And I don't think that level of
>> >simplicity is even theoretically possible.
> The Debian-based packages do quite a bit to ease this pain.  Do the
> other distributions do anything to set up SSL certificates, etc on
> install?  Perhaps they could be convinced to?

don't forget, there's OS's other than Linux to consider too... the 
various BSD's, Solaris, AIX, OSX, and MS Windows are all platforms 
PostgreSQL runs on.




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john r pierce                            N 37, W 122
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