Re: password method in pg_hba.conf fails

Tom Lane wrote:
> manu(at)netbsd(dot)org (Emmanuel Dreyfus) writes:
> >> We do not support external password files anymore. Sorry.
>
> > What is the benefit of throwing away this feature?
>
> I don't recall the reasoning. You can dig through the pghackers mailing
> list archives if you want to see the discussion.

The issue is that no one was using it, or at least we thought so, and it
could only use crypt, while MD5 is better because it allows random salt
to be added to the over-the-wire password transfer.

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