On 05/06/2015 02:13 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: >> (Personally I think there's a very good case for completely ripping out >> RFC1413 ident auth. I've not seen it used in a great long while, and >> it's always been a security risk.) > > FWIW, I agree with that --- or at least making it a not-built-by-default > option.
I have seen it in the last year, actually, but only once, which even for my personal pool represents < 1% usage. So ... > Probably the right time to make any such changes is at the same time > we add the proposed more-secure-than-MD5 password option. +1 to kill off ident when we replace MD5, since users will need to be beaten over the head about changes to auth methods anyway. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
