Re: PATCH: warn about, and deprecate, clear text passwords - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Nathan Bossart
Subject Re: PATCH: warn about, and deprecate, clear text passwords
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In response to Re: PATCH: warn about, and deprecate, clear text passwords  (Isaac Morland <isaac.morland@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 04:06:41PM -0500, Isaac Morland wrote:
> And in any case I believe the existing behaviour can still be had by
> configuration so we're not really imposing anything on anybody.

Well, the discussion upthread suggests "disallowing plain text passwords
completely" [0], which means at some point we would have to impose
something, right?  Again, maybe this in itself is not a deal-breaker.
After all, we'll probably have a similar problem when we eventually remove
MD5 password support down the road.

[0] https://postgr.es/m/CAKAnmmKGWxEGbvuBAxyDWmuije8agUHTY-82DR1VEkFM2vKNTg%40mail.gmail.com

-- 
nathan



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