Re: Password authorization - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Hi Holger,

Is there any change related to password management in Postgres14 with respect to previous releases. I don't see anything new.

Thanks

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 3:36 PM Holger Jakobs <holger@jakobs.com> wrote:

Am 20.01.22 um 10:56 schrieb Daulat:
> Hi Team,
>
> Do we have any facility for password authorisation in Postgres same as
> in Oracle?
> In Oracle, a user can change their password based upon the
> profile setting. What about in Postgres ?
>
> Is there any alternative in postgres to manage the user password
> authorisation?
> What about LDAP with respect to this approach?
> Please suggest.
>
> Thanks.
>
>

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/sql-alterrole.html contains the sentence:

     Ordinary roles can only change their own password.

Yes, there is. The default password hashing method has changed in postgresql.conf:

Version 13:
#password_encryption = md5        # md5 or scram-sha-256

Version 14:
#password_encryption = scram-sha-256    # scram-sha-256 or md5

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