| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, 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: | 2020-05-20 14:49:35 |
| Message-ID: | 3a7d55ed-6abb-2005-23d7-8411bb9f5651@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 2020-05-20 15:40, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Peter Eisentraut
>> The upstream default is still to use md5 passwords by default, and some
>> deliberation has gone into that to keep it that way. So it would make sense
>> to have the RPMs also do that. The Debian packages also still use md5.
>> Some consistency across the board would be good. Otherwise it will be very
>> confusing for users if everyone just goes into their own direction.
>
> The upstream initdb default is still 'trust', but everyone agrees that
> it's good that distributions are changing that so something more
> secure, so we are already disconnected from the "true" default here.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. The upstream default of the GUC
parameter "password_encryption" is md5.
It is understood that the default client authentication method can be
changed downstream.
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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
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