Re: [ADMIN] password administration

Hmm... that doesn't work on my system because my system's logon/passwd
commands use a different encryption altorhythm than Postgres. I wonder if
there is a way to change one or the other's scheme. Did you have to hack
anything or did it work "out-of-the-box"?

My Linux kernel is 2.0.34 and my distribution is Slackware 3.5.

On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Charles Curley wrote:

> I don't know about secure but what I've done is linked the pg_passwd file to
> /etc/passwd and then people remote ODBC user can change their database
> password via the passwd command (or yppasswd). I've got a RH 5.0 system
> running without shadowed password but with NIS. I'm curious what people think
> of this from a security standpoint.
>
> Adam Maddock wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > As one who is fairly new (within the last two months) to Postgre, I've
> > looked through the Archives for this list a bit and have seen this issue
> > addressed a number of times, but no strong solutions posted. Has anybody
> > devised a good/secure way of allowing users to control their own password
> > on a Postgre system?
> >
> > I'm hoping that either somebody already has a solution to this or that
> > this will possibly spark some discussion on the topic.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Adam
> >
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