Re: Removing a user's password

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Removing a user's password
Date: 2003-05-26 18:23:34
Message-ID: 4094.1053973414@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> What capabilities do we have for removing a user's password?

If you set VALID UNTIL to 'now' (or sometime in the past), you've
effectively prevented him from logging in with the password ---
more effectively than setting the password to NULL, since if the
user is still logged in he can just undo that. I don't think we
really need to do anything more here.

regards, tom lane

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