Re: Proposal: Support custom authentication methods using hooks - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Proposal: Support custom authentication methods using hooks
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In response to Re: Proposal: Support custom authentication methods using hooks  (Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>)
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On 28.02.22 00:17, Jeff Davis wrote:
>> I also have in mind here that there has been discussion of giving
>> libpq a feature to refuse, on the client side, to send cleartext
>> passwords.
> I am generally in favor of that idea, but I'm not sure that will
> completely resolve the issue. For instance, should it also refuse MD5?

Presumably that feature could be more generally "refuse these 
authentication mechanisms" rather than only one hardcoded one.



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