Re: Best practice? Web application: single PostgreSQL

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Keith G(dot) Murphy" <keithmur(at)mindspring(dot)com>
Cc: johnsw(at)wardbrook(dot)com, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Best practice? Web application: single PostgreSQL
Date: 2004-01-13 18:24:45
Message-ID: 12900.1074018285@sss.pgh.pa.us
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-general

"Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur(at)mindspring(dot)com> writes:
> Hmmm, mightn't it be kind of nice if there were PAM or krb5 maps in
> addition to ident maps?

ISTM the whole point of PAM is that you plug in your desired security
policy outside of the application. You shouldn't be asking for more
security frammishes from Postgres, you should be off coding a PAM module
that does things exactly the way you want.

regards, tom lane

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-general by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message scott.marlowe 2004-01-13 18:34:20 Re: Nested transaction - I am a bank ??
Previous Message Thapliyal, Deepak 2004-01-13 18:20:31 Nested transaction - I am a bank ??