| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Felipe Nascimento <Felipe(dot)Nascimento(at)multivalor(dot)com(dot)br> |
| Cc: | "'Stephane Schildknecht'" <sschildknecht(at)aurora-linux(dot)com>, Postgresql-Admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: createuser --password |
| Date: | 2002-07-09 14:35:47 |
| Message-ID: | 200207091435.g69EZlt17538@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Felipe Nascimento wrote:
> Could you explain primary and secondary passwords?
> How can I create primary passwords?
Primary passwords are stored in pg_shadow. We will not even support
secondary passwords in 7.3 so don't worry about them. It was an old
idea to allow /etc/passwd to function in PostgreSQL, but the idea wasn't
very valuable.
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