Re: SCRAM auth and Pgpool-II

>> Using a clear text password would not be acceptable for users even
>> through an encrypted connection, I think.
>
> Really, I don't think users who are concerned with security should be
> using the md5 method either.

The comment in pg_hba.conf.sample seem to prefer md5 over clear text
password.

# Note that "password" sends passwords in clear text; "md5" or
# "scram-sha-256" are preferred since they send encrypted passwords.

> What would be really nice for such cases is support for Kerberos and
> delegated Kerberos credentials. Having pgpool support that would remove
> the need to deal with passwords at all.
>
> Ditto for having postgres_fdw support same. More often than not,
> Kerberos deployments (via AD, generally) is what I find in the
> enterprises that I work with and they're happy to see we have Kerberos
> but it's disappointing when they can't use Kerberos with either
> connection poolers or with FDWs.

I would add supporting Kerberos to the Pgpool-II todo list.

Best regards,
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Tatsuo Ishii
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