Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Something to maybe add to the TODO list, if someone has the > time/inclination to work on it ... > > The problem with the current auth system, as I see it, is that you can't > easily have seperate user lists and passwords per database ... its shared > across the system ... > > The closest you can get is to have a database defined as 'password' in > pg_hba.conf, with an external password file from pg_shadow, which, for the > most part, is good ... but it doesn't lend itself well to a 'hands off' > server ...
Actually, that is removed in 7.3. It was too weird a syntax and format and the original idea of sharing /etc/passwd there didn't work anymore on most systems. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
