[Pgpool-general] Secure authentication options?

[Josh Berkus]

>> 1) is md5 auth in development?
> 
> I thought you can use md5 auth with pgpool-II 3.0.x.

Me, too, but I got an error message that md5 was not supported and I had
to use password.

>> 2) is there any way to make pgpool compatible with SSL auth to the various backends?
> 
> What is SSL auth? I think pgpool-II already supports SSL encryption.

You can use an SSL key to authenticate too, without passwords, by
machine key.  However, if we have SSL connections and md5, that's pretty
good.

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