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From: Christoph Berg <[email protected]>
To: Devrim Gündüz <[email protected]>
Cc: Craig Ringer <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-pkg-yum <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Can we stop defaulting to 'ident'?
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 11:32:40 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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Re: Devrim Gündüz 2019-12-20 <[email protected]>
> > but I think it's pretty unhelpful. At least if we used 'md5' the user could
> > set passwords and have them actually work.
> 
> IMHO the only alternative could be "trust", because I am not holding my breath
> for the majority of our users to be able to setup a password that easily
> (yeah). I'm also not inclined to setup a default password for RPM installations
> (and also RPMs must not do any interactive work, like asking for a password)

Fwiw, the Debian packages have been using md5 forever, and do not set
a password either. People seem to be able to set a password
themselves. I've never heard any complaint about it. (Except for some
poking that scram might be better.)

Christoph

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