| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Password sub-process ... |
| Date: | 2002-07-30 05:01:54 |
| Message-ID: | 20020730020049.N3083-100000@mail1.hub.org |
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On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> > First and foremost in my mind ... how do you have two users in the system
> > with seperate passwords? ...
> > since as soon as there are two 'bruce' users, only one can have a password
>
> Uh, we've *never* supported "two bruce users" ... users have always been
> installation-wide. I am not sure what the notion of a database-owning
> user means if user names are not of wider scope than databases.
Sorry, you mis-understand here ... pg_user/shadow only has one bruce user
in it ... but the way it was up until now, with the password file in
pg_hba.conf, I could assign bruce with a different password for database1
vs database2 ... effectively, have 'two bruce users' ...
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