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From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Cc: Valery Popov <v.popov@postgrespro.ru>
Subject: Re: pg_authid.rolpassword format (was Re: Password identifiers, protocol aging and SCRAM protocol)
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 11:58:51 -0800
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On 12/14/2016 11:41 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Heikki Linnakangas (hlinnaka@iki.fi) wrote:
>> On 14 December 2016 20:12:05 EET, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 11:27:15AM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:

> Storing plaintext passwords has been bad form for just about forever and
> I wouldn't be sad to see our support of it go.  At the least, as was
> discussed somewhere, but I'm not sure where it ended up, we should give
> administrators the ability to control what ways a password can be
> stored.  In particular, once a user has migrated all of their users to
> SCRAM, they should be able to say "don't let new passwords be in any
> format other than SCRAM-SHA-256".

It isn't as bad as it used to be. I remember with PASSWORD was the 
default. I agree that we should be able to set a policy that says, "we 
only allow X for password storage".

JD


>
> Thanks!
>
> Stephen
>


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