Re: [v9.1] Add security hook on initialization of instance

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> * Robert Haas (robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
>> > Something else which has come up but is related is the ability to
>> > support a "pam_tally"-like function in PG.  Basically, the ability to
>> > lock users out if they've had too many failed login attempts.  I wonder
>> > if we could add this hook (or maybe have more than one if necessary) in
>> > a way to support a contrib module for that.
>>
>> Seems like the hard part would be figuring out where to store the
>> bookkeeping information.
>
> pam_tally does it in a flat file on-disk.  It's not perfect, but it
> works.  It'd be good enough for me if there was a hook in the right
> place that I could write the contrib module.
>
> Of course, it'd be even nicer to have support for this in-core, since
> it's a FISMA requirement and not everyone is going to like having to
> install a contrib module to handle something like this.

Feel free to propose a patch...!

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