Re: [ADMIN] password authentication with external passwd file

2005-08-29 Thread Tom Lane
Jason Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > out of curiosity, why was the secondary password file capability removed? You'd have to look into the pghackers archives for details, but my recollection is that it didn't play nicely with other features that we wanted to add. > I really liked the simplic

Re: [ADMIN] password authentication with external passwd file

2005-08-29 Thread Jason Stone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would like to know first, if I'm mistaken, or if external passwd files are now specified in some other way, or must be enabled at compile time or something like that; ie, am I doing something wrong? The 7.3 Release Notes have the following items

Re: [ADMIN] password authentication with external passwd file

2005-08-27 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 01:31:25AM -0700, Jason Stone wrote: > I would like to know first, if I'm mistaken, or if external passwd files > are now specified in some other way, or must be enabled at compile time or > something like that; ie, am I doing something wrong? The 7.3 Release Notes have t

[ADMIN] password authentication with external passwd file

2005-08-27 Thread Jason Stone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all. I am currently running postgresql-7.2, and I have my pg_hba.conf configured to use password authentication with external passwd files. eg: pg_hba.conf: local db1 all password db1.pwd host db1 all 127.0.0.1 255.