Re: Password sub-process ... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: Password sub-process ...
Date
Msg-id 20020730001122.S3083-100000@mail1.hub.org
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In response to Re: Password sub-process ...  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Password sub-process ...  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >
> > Something to maybe add to the TODO list, if someone has the
> > time/inclination to work on it ...
> >
> > The problem with the current auth system, as I see it, is that you can't
> > easily have seperate user lists and passwords per database ... its shared
> > across the system ...
> >
> > The closest you can get is to have a database defined as 'password' in
> > pg_hba.conf, with an external password file from pg_shadow, which, for the
> > most part, is good ... but it doesn't lend itself well to a 'hands off'
> > server ...
>
> Actually, that is removed in 7.3.  It was too weird a syntax and format
> and the original idea of sharing /etc/passwd there didn't work anymore
> on most systems.

whoa ... what replaced it?  weird it might have been, but it worked great
if you knew about it ...




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