Re: CREATE/ALTER ROLE PASSWORD ('value' USING 'method')

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CREATE/ALTER ROLE PASSWORD ('value' USING 'method')
Date: 2017-03-09 15:00:47
Message-ID: 98cafcd0-5557-0bdf-4837-0f2b7782d0b5@joeconway.com
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On 03/09/2017 06:34 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 7:59 AM, Michael Paquier
> <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Yes, I agree with that for MD5, and after looking around I can see
>> (like here http://prosody.im/doc/plain_or_hashed) as well that
>> SCRAM-hashed is used. Now, there are as well references to the salt,
>> like in protocol.sgml:
>> "The salt to use when encrypting the password."
>> Joe, do you think that in this case using the term "hashing" would be
>> more appropriate? I would think so as we use it to hash the password.
>
> I'm not Joe, but I think that would be more appropriate.

I am Joe and I agree ;-)

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