Re: [GENERAL] local security

2001-04-17 Thread Tom Lane
"David M. Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... If you do that, you > can no longer do things like restores from backups without editing the > configuration file because postgresql wont let you change users. This is of > course not a great problem, but it is a bit annoying. What I really wan

Re: [GENERAL] local security

2001-04-17 Thread Tom Lane
"David M. Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Even better would be that postgres uses the standard unix security > and that on connecting it asks for the appropriate unix password unless you > are a superuser in which case it just connects. This would tie Postgres usernames to usernames of the