| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tony Caduto <tony_caduto(at)amsoftwaredesign(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Password issue revisited |
| Date: | 2007-02-20 19:13:46 |
| Message-ID: | 18922.1171998826@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> Tony Caduto wrote:
>> What about having a wallet type system where the user can create a pass
>> phrase to protect a generated key that would get
>> loaded once per session. That is how KDE allows users to store passwords.
> If we wanted to do that, we could use the Windows API that's available
> to do this. The idea with the pgpass flie is to have it compatible with
> the unix version.
More to the point, that's far outside the scope of this project. Use a
PAM auth module that you like, or Kerberos or whatever. I'm way past
tired of "let's put yet another authentication technology in libpq" requests.
regards, tom lane
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