Re: Password authentication - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Password authentication
Date
Msg-id 200303140243.h2E2hwf03478@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Password authentication  (gar8@pitt.edu (Tony Reina))
Responses Re: Password authentication
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Tony Reina wrote:
> If I delcare md5 password authentication in pg_hba.conf, can I have
> the password's verified by the OS's password list? Or, can it only
> look at the password's specifically inserted into PostgreSQL?

No, only from pg_shadow.  In fact we removed the host password pg_passwd
utility in 7.3 anyway.

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