Re: Deactivate/disable User id in Postgres - Mailing list pgsql-admin

On 5/4/20 9:45 AM, Rui DeSousa wrote:

On May 4, 2020, at 7:29 AM, Rajin Raj <rajin.raj@opsveda.com> wrote:

Hi,

Is there any option to deactivate/disable a user id in Postgres?

I can think of below two options, 

ALTER USER <user_id> WITH CONNECTION LIMIT 0;

ALTER USER <user_id> WITH NOLOGIN

Is there any better approach? 

Regards,

Rajin 

Using external authentication is an option too. i.e. using LDAP; disabling the account in LDAP means the user cannot login.

That would be a disaster in an enterprise that has many systems, and uses LDAP/AD for account management.