Re: Password authentication

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tony Reina <gar8(at)pitt(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Password authentication
Date: 2003-03-14 02:43:57
Message-ID: 200303140243.h2E2hwf03478@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tony Reina wrote:
> If I delcare md5 password authentication in pg_hba.conf, can I have
> the password's verified by the OS's password list? Or, can it only
> look at the password's specifically inserted into PostgreSQL?

No, only from pg_shadow. In fact we removed the host password pg_passwd
utility in 7.3 anyway.

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