Re: rolcanlogin vs. the flat password file - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: rolcanlogin vs. the flat password file
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Msg-id 20071017163912.GE6268@svr2.hagander.net
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In response to Re: rolcanlogin vs. the flat password file  (Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>)
Responses Re: rolcanlogin vs. the flat password file
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 05:09:25PM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> Stephen Frost wrote:
> > * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> >> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> >>> There's legitimate use for creating a role with NOLOGIN and a password.
> >> If we think that, then we shouldn't have a message at all.
> > 
> > I'm not sure I agree with that.  I don't agree that there's really a
> > legitimate use for creating a role w/ NOLOGIN and a password either, for
> > that matter. 
> 
> Preparing a new user account prior to an employee starting? In my last
> post we would do that regularly - setup all the accounts etc for the new
> user, but disable them all until the start date.

Yeah, but did you actually set a password for them?

We do that all the time here, but we don't set the passwords until they
show up.

//Magnus


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