Re: Centralized User Management Tool?

From: David Kerr <dmk(at)mr-paradox(dot)net>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Centralized User Management Tool?
Date: 2010-09-29 21:32:25
Message-ID: 20100929213225.GA45547@mr-paradox.net
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On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 02:23:14PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
- > Howdy,
- >
- > Does anyone know of any tools or methods to handle centralized user management within postgres?
- >
- > I've got about 20 DB servers (and growing) each requiring a different number and level of user access
- > (think dev, qa, staging, production, etc.)
- >
- > Corporate security guidelines state that all users need to have their own login, and since we
- > work with sensitive data, that extends down into the developers space.
- >
- > I know i can authenticate using PAM on linux, however that still requires a user to get created in
- > the DB. (I'm looking for a tool that helps manage that user creation portion)
-
- ldap

oh, great! i thought that fell under the "authenticate" but not "authorize" umbrella.

thanks!

Dave

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