Re: Proposal: Support custom authentication methods using hooks

On Fri, 2022-02-25 at 12:39 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> My point is that sending cleartext passwords over the wire is an
> insecure-by-definition protocol that we shouldn't be encouraging
> more use of.

We can require custom auth entries in pg_hba.conf to also specify
local, hostssl or hostgssenc.

It might annoy people who have a network secured at some other layer,
or who have the client on the same machine as the host. We could allow
plain "host" if someone specifies "customplain" explicitly.

Regards,
    Jeff Davis