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Remove support for the (insecure) <literal>crypt</> authentication method

(Magnus)

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This effectively obsoletes pre-<productname>PostgreSQL</> 7.2 client

libraries, as there is no longer any non-plaintext password method that

they can use.

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Remove <varname>krb_realm</> and <varname>krb_server_hostname</>;

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<para>

Remove support for the (insecure) <literal>crypt</> authentication method

(Magnus)

</para>

<para>

This effectively obsoletes pre-<productname>PostgreSQL</> 7.2 client

libraries, as there is no longer any non-plaintext password method that

they can use.

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Support regular expressions in <filename>pg_ident.conf</>

Change all authentication options to use <literal>name=value</>

syntax (Magnus)

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<para>

This makes incompatible changes to the <literal>ldap</>,

<literal>pam</> and <literal>ident</> authentication methods. All

<filename>pg_hba.conf</> entries with these methods need to be

rewritten using the new format.

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