Re: sunsetting md5 password support

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Jim Nasby <jnasby@upgrade.com>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-10-29T01:06:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 04:10:29PM -0500, Jim Nasby wrote:
> Patch itself looks good, but it does leave me wondering if cleartext
> should also be deprecated?

I see that Tom has already chimed in on this point.  In any case, this is
probably a topic for another thread.

> Might also be worth mentioning deprecation in pg_hba.conf.

Yeah.  I vaguely recall waffling on whether to add one there, and for
whatever reason, I decided against it.  I've added it in v4.

-- 
nathan

Commits

  1. Deprecate MD5 passwords.