| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Security choices... |
| Date: | 2000-08-04 22:34:17 |
| Message-ID: | 200008042234.SAA03898@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Philip Warner writes:
>
> > Is there any reason that a security model does not exist for psql that
> > allows Unix user 'fred' to log in as PG user 'fred' with no password etc,
> > but any user trying to log on as someone other than themselves has to
> > provide a password?
>
> Short of someone sitting down and making it happen I don't see any. You'd
> only need to implement some sort of fall-through in `pg_hba.conf', which
> in my estimate can't be exceedingly hard.
How do you know Fred is Fred without a password?
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