Re: question about SSIS

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Konstantin Izmailov <kizmailov(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: question about SSIS
Date: 2009-05-22 20:14:38
Message-ID: 1243023278.16418.886.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org
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On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 15:24 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > I think what he's asking for is the ability for a line in the server to
> > allow multiple authentication methods, and then for the client to be
> > able to specify which one of these it uses.
>
> There's no way we could implement that without a protocol change,
> and it doesn't seem worth it to me. The idea that the client gets
> to choose seems like a bad idea from a security standpoint anyhow...

Wouldn't this be solved just by having fall through authentication?

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake
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