Re: scram and \password

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:
> On 03/24/2017 03:02 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>
>> In order to close this thread, I propose to reuse the patches I sent
>> here to make scram_build_verifier() available to frontends:
>>
>> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqT4yc3u8wspYkWbG088Ndp6asMH3=Zb___Ck89CTvziYQ@mail.gmail.com
>>
>> And on top of it modify \password so as it generates a md5 verifier
>> for pre-9.6 servers and a scram one for post-10 servers by looking at
>> the backend version of the current connection. What do you think?
>
> Yep, sounds like a plan.

And attached is a set of rebased patches, with createuser and psql's
\password extended to do that.
-- 
Michael