Re: sunsetting md5 password support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Sabino Mullane
Subject Re: sunsetting md5 password support
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In response to Re: sunsetting md5 password support  (Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 8:55 PM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
* Expand the documentation.  Perhaps we could add a step-by-step guide for migrating to SCRAM-SHA-256 since more users will need to do so when MD5 password support is removed.
* Remove the hint.  It's arguably doing little more than pointing out the obvious, and it doesn't actually tell users where in the documentation to look for this information, anyway.

I think both ideally, but maybe just the hint removal for this patch?

On the other hand, "change your password and update pg_hba.conf" is pretty much all you need, so not sure how detailed we want to get. :)

Cheers,
Greg

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