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From: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>
To: Alpaslan AKDAĞ <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Password Encryption and Connection Issues
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 13:02:06 -0400
Message-ID: <CAKAnmmLfYwA+A6_A7fHbFOpYLmzs-7wjpFfR32b7c3qJOTxscg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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> Best solution: Upgrade everyone to scram, then change md5 to scram in
> pg_hba.conf and never look back.
>

To expand more on the "upgrade everyone to scram", that means force all
users to set a new password while using scram (which should be the
default). You can do it yourself by getting a list of users and changing
their passwords inside psql:

-- List all users still stuck in md5-land:
greg=# select rolname from pg_authid where rolpassword ~ '^md5'
alice
eve
mallory
(3 rows)

-- Just in case, force use of scram
greg=# set password_encryption = 'scram-sha-256';
SET

-- Reset each user's password to some strong password of your choice:
greg=# \password alice
Enter new password for user "alice":
Enter it again:

-- Repeat the above until this query returns no rows:
select rolname from pg_authid where rolpassword ~ '^md5'

Cheers,
Greg

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Crunchy Data - https://www.crunchydata.com
Enterprise Postgres Software Products & Tech Support


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