| From: | Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
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| To: | PostgreSQL Hacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] pSQL auth |
| Date: | 2000-03-08 07:21:12 |
| Message-ID: | 20000308082112.A4571@fam-meskes.de |
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On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 09:45:44AM +0100, Jacopo Silva wrote:
> I am an enthusiastic user of PostgreSQL, and I feel that with little effort
> we could add pam authentication functionality. What do you think?
> "Pluggable Authentication Modules" are well supported on many architectures,
> eg. Linux or BSD or Solaris, users could authenticate in tens of ways.
> The db administrator's will have choice of thousands of authentication
> methods, e.g. Kerberos, standard Unix UID (/etc/passwd), SMB, NT Domain,
> etc. etc.
This sounds very interesting IMO.
Michael
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