| From: | Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> |
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| To: | Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-pkg-yum <pgsql-pkg-yum(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Can we stop defaulting to 'ident'? |
| Date: | 2019-12-20 10:32:40 |
| Message-ID: | 20191220103240.GB9564@msg.df7cb.de |
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Re: Devrim Gündüz 2019-12-20 <77df509da61adaebca6c5f0451f1c1616f1faa45(dot)camel(at)gunduz(dot)org>
> > but I think it's pretty unhelpful. At least if we used 'md5' the user could
> > set passwords and have them actually work.
>
> IMHO the only alternative could be "trust", because I am not holding my breath
> for the majority of our users to be able to setup a password that easily
> (yeah). I'm also not inclined to setup a default password for RPM installations
> (and also RPMs must not do any interactive work, like asking for a password)
Fwiw, the Debian packages have been using md5 forever, and do not set
a password either. People seem to be able to set a password
themselves. I've never heard any complaint about it. (Except for some
poking that scram might be better.)
Christoph
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