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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