Re: add warning upon successful md5 password auth
Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2026-02-13T17:26:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 06:04:14AM +0100, Andreas Karlsson wrote: > The patch looks good and I think it would make sense to merge it in 19, why > wait for 20? But the main question I see is if this is too noisy or not. > Some applications connected to PostgreSQL quite a lot and I am sure we would > make some users unhappy so I am not fully on board with this patch. But on > the other hand we have way too many people who still use md5 and we really > should push them towards using scram. FWIW if users are really annoyed with these warnings, they can disable them by setting md5_password_warnings to off. But I think we really ought to do something like $subject before we completely remove MD5 password support. -- nathan
Commits
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Warn upon successful MD5 password authentication.
- bc60ee860665 19 (unreleased) landed
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Add password expiration warnings.
- 1d92e0c2cc47 19 (unreleased) cited