| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: FW: [ppa-dev] Severe bug in debian - phppgadmin opens |
| Date: | 2001-11-28 06:11:10 |
| Message-ID: | 200111280611.fAS6BAg22852@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> It's not that it's "okay", it's that we haven't got any good
> alternatives. Password auth sucks from a convenience point of view
> (or even from a possibility point of view, for scripts; don't forget
> the changes that you yourself recently applied to guarantee that a
> script *cannot* supply a password to psql). Ident auth doesn't work,
> or isn't secure, in a lot of cases. Kerberos, well, not a lot to
> offer there either. What else do you want to make the default?
Someone, somewhere, please help us. :-)
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