Re: Weak passwords and brute force attacks - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Weak passwords and brute force attacks
Date
Msg-id 4575BFFE.2020905@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Weak passwords and brute force attacks  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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Stephen Frost wrote:
> PAM is simply not always an option, unless you want to figure out a way
> to use PAM modules without using /etc/passwd and company.  Currently the
> only way to use PAM w/ password-changing done in PG is to chown all the
> various files and whatnot over to being owned by Postgres, which is a royal
> pain and a very ugly mess.  I suppose another option would be to
> convince PG to run as root but that's not exactly an encouraged setup
> either.
>
>   

That assumes that you are using system auth. PAM+LDAP for example has no 
such problems.

cheers

andrew


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