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From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Should we really recommend "-A md5 or -A password"?
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Msg-id CABUevEzMrPYPrQq7HWePY2ikZ7AFv0egfm1oWHVX2bjUekWzJA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Should we really recommend "-A md5 or -A password"?  ("Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>)
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On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 3:57 PM Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> wrote:
On 5/31/22 8:35 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 2:29 PM Daniel Westermann (DWE)
> <daniel.westermann@dbi-services.com
> <mailto:daniel.westermann@dbi-services.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi,
>
>     I just came across this:
>     "Also, specify -A md5 or -A password so that the default trust
>     authentication mode is not used;"
>     https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/creating-cluster.html
>     <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/creating-cluster.html>
>
>     Shouldn't we change that to "-A scram-sha-256" ?
>
>
> Yes I think we absolutely should!

+1

Proposed patch attached. This also removes "-A password" from that
sentence as well.

Applied and backpatched to 14. Thanks!
 
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