Re: createuser --password - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: createuser --password
Date
Msg-id 200207091435.g69EZlt17538@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: createuser --password  (Felipe Nascimento <Felipe.Nascimento@multivalor.com.br>)
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Felipe Nascimento wrote:
> Could you explain primary and secondary passwords?
> How can I create primary passwords?

Primary passwords are stored in pg_shadow.  We will not even support
secondary passwords in 7.3 so don't worry about them.  It was an old
idea to allow /etc/passwd to function in PostgreSQL, but the idea wasn't
very valuable.

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