On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 05:00:41PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 09:32:23PM +0200, Volker Aßmann wrote:
>
> > > But I like the more general approach proposed by Alvaro, so in case this patch
> > > would have a chance to not be immediately rejected, I would try to implement
> > > the more generic approach. I would also include a check to ensure at least one
> > > reasonably secure way for password recovery is available. For Unix systems
> > > "peer" authentication seems to be a good candidate.
> >
> > Likely to be rejected.
>
> Why?
Because, as Josh stated, it is more of a bandaid rather than a fix ---
we can't protect administrators against themselves in this way without
causing a lot of confusion.
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