Re: fallback authentication - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Ron Peterson
Subject Re: fallback authentication
Date
Msg-id 20041211015056.GA13388@mtholyoke.edu
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In response to fallback authentication  (Ron Peterson <rpeterso@mtholyoke.edu>)
Responses Re: fallback authentication  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
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On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 03:20:50PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote:

> Sometimes, however, I would like to create an account in PostgreSQL
> which I do not want to also maintain in LDAP.  Is it possible to
> configure authentication to fall through to a different method?

I suppose the right thing to do is either

* don't be lazy, and update my LDAP maintainance to include the
  required accounts, or

* fall through in pam.  Is there anything similar in concept to
  libpam-pgsql, but which simply authenticates against PostgreSQL's
  built-in authentication mechanism?

--
Ron Peterson
Network & Systems Manager
Mount Holyoke College
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso

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