Re: sunsetting md5 password support

From: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jim Nasby <jnasby(at)upgrade(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: sunsetting md5 password support
Date: 2024-11-20 15:56:11
Message-ID: CAKAnmmK0r1ZajcL+tU2QLPTD1Nd_VKkr5LjxSCBaENPOZLiXrQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 8:55 PM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> * Expand the documentation. Perhaps we could add a step-by-step guide
> for migrating to SCRAM-SHA-256 since more users will need to do so when
> MD5 password support is removed.
> * Remove the hint. It's arguably doing little more than pointing out the
> obvious, and it doesn't actually tell users where in the documentation
> to look for this information, anyway.
>

I think both ideally, but maybe just the hint removal for this patch?

On the other hand, "change your password and update pg_hba.conf" is pretty
much all you need, so not sure how detailed we want to get. :)

Cheers,
Greg

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