Re: authentication questions

From: "Mendola Gaetano" <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: "Michael Hanna" <zen(at)hwcn(dot)org>, "pgsql-novice" <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: authentication questions
Date: 2003-06-27 00:29:48
Message-ID: 002301c33c43$37365990$10d4a8c0@mm.eutelsat.org
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From: "Michael Hanna" <zen(at)hwcn(dot)org>
To: "pgsql-novice" <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 10:59 PM
Subject: [NOVICE] authentication questions

> on certain DBs, I want remote access via users who are not unix users
> on the computer. Do I keep a table of users and passwords?

When you create a DB user nobody oblige you to create also a
unix user, the table with username and passwd is a system table,
take a look at pg_shadow ( select * from pg_shadow ).

Regards
Gaetano

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