[ADMIN] Multiple auth types for a connection

2007-05-02 Thread Rob Cherry
Hi, I am operating in an environment where we have regular users who will authenticate via PAM and software users for automated processes that would be more appropriate to authenticate via a password (encrypted or not - irrelevant to this question). I have taken a look through the documentation

Re: [ADMIN] Multiple auth types for a connection

2007-05-02 Thread Tom Lane
Rob Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know if it is possible to overload auth types like this such that if pam fails password would be tried? No, it's not, as per the Fine Manual: : The first record with a matching connection type, client address, : requested database, and user name

Re: [ADMIN] Multiple auth types for a connection

2007-05-02 Thread Geoff Tolley
Tom Lane wrote: Rob Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know if it is possible to overload auth types like this such that if pam fails password would be tried? No, it's not, as per the Fine Manual: Provided that you don't care about the security and performance implications of SSL