Re: User login - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: User login
Date
Msg-id 2912.1227198710@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to User login  ("Swathi S" <ss.postgres@gmail.com>)
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"Swathi S" <ss.postgres@gmail.com> writes:
> How do we find which user logged in from the OS level in postgres.

> For eg: If user "a" logged in from the OS level and logged into postgres
> psql as user "b" .........how do we find the login details?

You don't --- there's no way to find that out from the server side.

What you might consider doing is tying the OS and postgres user
identities together by using "ident" authorization --- but that's
not real secure unless all the connections are local.

            regards, tom lane

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