Re: Logging of PAM Authentication Failure

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Logging of PAM Authentication Failure
Date: 2013-05-28 22:43:06
Message-ID: 20130528224306.GC3203@momjian.us
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On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 01:32:53PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 05/11/2013 03:25 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> > Not really. We could potentially fix it by extending the wire
> > protocol to allow the server to respond to the client's startup packet
> > with a further challenge, and extend libpq to report that challenge
> > back to the user and allow sending a response. But that would break
> > on-the-wire compatibility, which we haven't done in a good 10 years,
> > and certainly wouldn't be worthwhile just for this.
> We were just talking about "things we'd like to do in wire protocol 4".
>
> Allowing multi-stage authentication has come up repeatedly and should
> perhaps go on that list. The most obvious case being "ident auth failed,
> demand md5".

Added to TODO.

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