Provide more detail in postmaster log for password authentication failures.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 5e0b5dcab685fe2a342385450a29a825cf40cddf
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2016-01-07T16:19:33Z
Releases: 9.6.0
Provide more detail in postmaster log for password authentication failures.

We tell people to examine the postmaster log if they're unsure why they are
getting auth failures, but actually only a few relatively-uncommon failure
cases were given their own log detail messages in commit 64e43c59b817a78d.
Expand on that so that every failure case detected within md5_crypt_verify
gets a specific log detail message.  This should cover pretty much every
ordinary password auth failure cause.

So far I've not noticed user demand for a similar level of auth detail
for the other auth methods, but sooner or later somebody might want to
work on them.  This is not that patch, though.

Files

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src/backend/libpq/crypt.c modified +15 −1