| From: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> |
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| To: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Ron Snyder <snyder(at)roguewave(dot)com>, Neil Conway <nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Open 7.3 items |
| Date: | 2002-08-01 05:35:13 |
| Message-ID: | 1028180113.2156.17.camel@rh72.home.ee |
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On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 06:48, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > One idea I had was to look for a colon in the username, and if I see
> > one, I assume everything after the colon is a password. Would that work
> > for you?
>
> That would definitely work ... but I *really* like your GUC idea ... it
> would allow ppl to change passwords using simple SQL statements remotely,
> which the "old" password stuff didn't allow for ...
I think that the users domain should be kept separate from username if
at all possible. This is how all modern authentication systems work.
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Hannu
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