Re: Should we really recommend "-A md5 or -A password"?

From: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, "Daniel Westermann (DWE)" <daniel(dot)westermann(at)dbi-services(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: Should we really recommend "-A md5 or -A password"?
Date: 2022-05-31 13:57:31
Message-ID: 2e8b6f77-5ac1-09f4-40b3-d2086aa48ef7@postgresql.org
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On 5/31/22 8:35 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
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>
> On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 2:29 PM Daniel Westermann (DWE)
> <daniel(dot)westermann(at)dbi-services(dot)com
> <mailto:daniel(dot)westermann(at)dbi-services(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just came across this:
> "Also, specify -A md5 or -A password so that the default trust
> authentication mode is not used;"
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/creating-cluster.html
> <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/creating-cluster.html>
>
> Shouldn't we change that to "-A scram-sha-256" ?
>
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> Yes I think we absolutely should!

+1

Proposed patch attached. This also removes "-A password" from that
sentence as well.

Jonathan

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