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Re: WIP: SCRAM authentication

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2015-08-11T18:35:49Z
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On 8/11/15 10:28 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> Right.  So what?  First, you upgrade all of the clients one by one to
> a new version of the connector that supports SCRAM.

In my experience, upgrading clients is, in many settings, significantly
harder than upgrading servers.  So I think any plan to starts like the
above isn't going to work.

Commits

  1. Support SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication (RFC 5802 and 7677).