Re: Temporarily suspend a user account?

Melvin Davidson <melvin6925(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:

> Possibly,
>
> To disble:
> ALTER USER name RENAME TO xname;

Fine if you don't care about losing password :-)

yomamadb/postgres
=# create user foo password 'foowow';
CREATE ROLE
yomamadb/postgres
=# alter user foo rename to fooxxx;
NOTICE: MD5 password cleared because of role rename <<<---
ALTER ROLE
yomamadb/postgres
=#

>
> To enable
> ALTER USER xname RENAME TO name;
>
> ???
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Felipe Gasper <felipe(at)felipegasper(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>         Is there a way to temporarily suspend a user account?
>
>         I would prefer not to revoke login privileges since that will break things that mine pg_users and pg_shadow.
>
>         I also am trying to find something that is completely reversible, so something like setting connection limit to 0, which would lose a potentially customized
> connection limit, doesn’t work.
>
>         We do this in MySQL by reversing the password hash then running FLUSH PRIVILEGES; however, that doesn’t seem to work in PostgreSQL/pg_authid as some sort of
> cache prevents this from taking effect.
>
>         Has anyone else solved this issue? Thank you!
>
> -Felipe Gasper
> Houston, TX
>
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