On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> * Stephen Frost (sfrost@snowman.net) wrote:
>> Guess my first thought was that you'd have a database-level label that
>> would be used by SELinux to validate a connection. A second thought is
>> labels for roles. KaiGai, can you provide your thoughts on this
>> discussion/approach/problems? I realize it's come a bit far-afield from
>> your original proposal.
>
> Something else which has come up but is related is the ability to
> support a "pam_tally"-like function in PG. Basically, the ability to
> lock users out if they've had too many failed login attempts. I wonder
> if we could add this hook (or maybe have more than one if necessary) in
> a way to support a contrib module for that.
Seems like the hard part would be figuring out where to store the
bookkeeping information.
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