Re: Serious problem within authentication subsystem in 7.0 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Serious problem within authentication subsystem in 7.0
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.21.0005232338360.359-100000@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: Serious problem within authentication subsystem in 7.0  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Serious problem within authentication subsystem in 7.0  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane writes:

> > The assumption that the old password can be reused between
> > password connections seems pretty unwise.
> 
> I think it's OK, and a useful convenience, if you are reconnecting with
> the same username as before.  What I had in mind was to discard the
> prior password if the \connect command specifies a username.

But if you have different passwords between databases then you are still
having the same problem, only at a different scale.

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