Re: password rules

From: "Peter J(dot) Holzer" <hjp-pgsql(at)hjp(dot)at>
To: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: password rules
Date: 2025-06-25 11:55:35
Message-ID: 20250625115535.bd3lmsslyd36qsha@hjp.at
Views: Whole Thread | Raw Message | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-general

On 2025-06-23 16:35:35 +0200, raphi wrote:
> To be fair, setting up LDAP is very easy in PG, just one line in hba.conf
> and all is done. But sadly, that's only where the problems begin. The
> difficult part is to embedd this setup into a company, especially a large
> one as I work for with over 1000 PG databases and at least that many roles.
> Someone needs to be able to manage the passwords in LDAP and this means
> someone has to decide who can change which passwords, which is usually where
> some sort of Identity and Access Management (IAM) comes into place.
>
> We already have LDAP and IAM in place in our organization for many other
> things, but IAM identities are coupled to a real person, not a team. Which
> means only one person in the team would be able to set a new password and
> when that person leaves the team, IAM rights need to be revoked and given to
> a new person. Doable, but quite a pane in the behind, especially when that
> one person happens to be on holidays.

I don't see why that should be the case. You could either grant
privileges to more than one person or - preferrably - to a role which is
then granted to the personal roles.

So for example you would authenticate as «raphi» and I as «hjp» but we
could both change to «foo_admin» or whatever. That would even have the
advantage that we leave an audit trail with our "real" identities.

hjp

--
_ | Peter J. Holzer | Story must make more sense than reality.
|_|_) | |
| | | hjp(at)hjp(dot)at | -- Charles Stross, "Creative writing
__/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | challenge!"

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-general by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message raphi 2025-06-25 12:42:26 Re: password rules
Previous Message Anton Shepelev 2025-06-25 10:55:32 Re: Cannot turn track_counts on