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

On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 3:57 PM Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
wrote:

> On 5/31/22 8:35 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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" ?
> >
> >
> > Yes I think we absolutely should!
>
> +1
>
> Proposed patch attached. This also removes "-A password" from that
> sentence as well.
>

Applied and backpatched to 14. Thanks!

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