Re: scram and \password

On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 1:10 AM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Heikki, are you going to do something about these?  We're running out of time.

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