On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 04:51:33PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > Coming in late, but can you explain how multiple passwords allow for > > easier automated credential rotation? If you have five applications > > with stored passwords, I imagine you can't change them all at once, so > > with multiples you could change it on one, then go to the others and > > change it there, and finally, remove the old password. Is that the > > process? I am not realizing that without multiple plasswords, this is a > > hard problem. > > That's exactly the process if multiple passwords can be used. If > there's only one account and one password supported then you have to > change all the systems all at once and that certainly can be a hard > problem. > > One way to deal with this is to have a bunch of different accounts, but > that's certainly not simple either and can get quite painful.
OK, for me, if we can explain the benefit for users, it seems worth doing just to allow that. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + Everyone has their own god. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
