At 09:25 AM 10/19/2004 -0400, Ed Stoner wrote:
I want to use bare numbers because that is how the users (students in this case) are identified on the network and in the student information system. They've been identified this way for over 20 years, so it would be near impossible to change at this point (although it is not always very convenient :-). I'm trying (and almost finished now) to have the postgres server be the source of all user account information on the network (windows and linux).
Just curious - but it doesn't seem obvious why you need all postgresql users == all users in the student information system?
Any reasons why?
Assuming the student information system is an application, I'd have created a table and each basic user account info would be in its own row in that table, and link rows from other tables to those rows as necessary.
Or maybe used something like LDAP (and add the necessary glue :( ).
Of course if ALL students need to directly use the same postgresql database with their own individual accounts then that's probably a good reason.
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