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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We are running about 20 pgpool II clusters with multiple databases on each, and thus multiple users that we need to maintain in each pool_passwd file.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This is becoming more and more painfull when security team requests for password change every 90 days, or if a password is changed on the database side, but is not updated in the pool_passwd file.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">To solve this issue and avoid using the pool_passwd file, we tried to use the password keyword in pool_hba.conf, but quickly noticed that this was not acceptable in terms of security, because the password is requested
in a clear text format on the client side, and we don’t want to spend too much time on configuring SSL between the clients and the servers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">So our question is : can we expect an enhancement request that would allow pgpool to request the password in the desired format (e.g : scram-sha-256 specified in pool_hba.conf) to the client, and pass it through as is
to the database engine , if the corresponding user is not defined in the pool_passwd file ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This new functionality could be driven by a pgpool.conf parameter .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Any help, advice, or alternative solution to our issue, would be highly appreciated,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Jean-Michel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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