Re: password_encryption default

From: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Vik Fearing <vik(at)postgresfriends(dot)org>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: password_encryption default
Date: 2020-06-10 14:51:22
Message-ID: 492faf93-33b4-1244-a4af-ddcee15bc8d4@postgresql.org
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On 6/10/20 10:47 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2020-05-28 15:28, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>> On 5/28/20 8:10 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> On 2020-05-27 15:25, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>>>> $ initdb -D data --auth-local=scram-sha-256 --auth-host=md5
>>>>
>>>> Got an error message:
>>>>
>>>> "initdb: error: must specify a password for the superuser to enable md5
>>>> authentication"
>>>>
>>>> For the last two, that behavior is to be expected (after all, you've
>>>> set
>>>> the two login vectors to require passwords), but the error message
>>>> seems
>>>> odd now. Perhaps we tweak it to be:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "initdb: error: must specify a password for the superuser when
>>>> requiring
>>>> passwords for both local and host authentication."
>>>
>>> That message is a bit long.  Maybe just
>>>
>>> must specify a password for the superuser to enable password
>>> authentication
>>>
>>> without reference to the specific method.  I think the idea is clear
>>> there.
>>
>> +1
>
> committed

Yay!!! Thank you!

Jonathan

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