Re: Can Pg somehow recognize/honor linux groups to control user access ?

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Ravi Krishna <sravikrishna(at)aol(dot)com>
Cc: David Gauthier <davegauthierpg(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Can Pg somehow recognize/honor linux groups to control user access ?
Date: 2018-08-22 16:08:12
Message-ID: CAKFQuwZVmgMHWU9zN4c1ihD3a1WPT_O+83+7mQ7Ta9WMcxthzw@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 8:58 AM, Ravi Krishna <sravikrishna(at)aol(dot)com> wrote:

> AFAIK PG does not support it , as yet. IMO this should be implemented as a
> priority.
>

It does not support it natively, no. What it does support is PAM which I'm
led to believe (haven't used it myself) can be configured to accommodate
this use case as well as many other configurations people may think up.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/auth-methods.html#AUTH-PAM

David J.

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