Re: Time to drop RADIUS support? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Aleksander Alekseev
Subject Re: Time to drop RADIUS support?
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Msg-id CAJ7c6TNS5TrAvEo343LDqWZ48J_yhSKOZ0ez0V-_feJmwFeeMw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Time to drop RADIUS support?  (Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>)
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Hi,

> 3.  That mitigation would help, but in the end it's still leaky
> obfuscation of credentials + MD5-based technology that is being
> formally deprecated with a mandated replacement[2], and de facto has
> been for a long time.
>
> The real recommendation of the paper was "don't use RADIUS/UDP at
> all", and I don't want to expend energy writing a RADIUS/TLS client
> for a hypothetical user, so I think we should just delete it all, and
> stick a deprecation notice in the release branch documentation, as
> attached.  That'd also mean our Windows select() and non-thread-safe
> UDP kludges can be VACUUMed.

All things considered, it sounds perfectly reasonable. +1.

-- 
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev



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