On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: > 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.
whoa ... what replaced it? weird it might have been, but it worked great if you knew about it ... ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
