| From: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> |
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| To: | Nicolas Kowalski <Nicolas(dot)Kowalski(at)imag(dot)fr> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)PostgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: passwords and 7.3 |
| Date: | 2003-01-27 13:06:21 |
| Message-ID: | 20030127130621.GA27948@wolff.to |
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On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:33:34 +0100,
Nicolas Kowalski <Nicolas(dot)Kowalski(at)imag(dot)fr> wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>
> > It isn't mentioned in the MIGRATION section (bad), but is mentioned as
> > change in the HISTORY file:
> >
> > Remove secondary password file capability and pg_password utility
> > (Bruce)
> >
> > We honestly didn't think anyone was using that secondary password file
> > anymore. You are the first to report the problem.
>
> Our PostgreSQL installation heavily depends on this external passwords
> file. This one is generated from a global NIS (standard crypt method)
> database, and thus allows users to connect to the databases without
> the need to change yet another password. This behaviour is really
> appreciated here.
Won't PAM allow you to do something like this?
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