Re: Removing a user's password

Is setting password to NULL better then deleting user?
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]On Behalf Of Bruce Momjian
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 2:32 PM
To: Tom Lane
Cc: PostgreSQL-development
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Removing a user's password

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > What capabilities do we have for removing a user's password?
>
> If you set VALID UNTIL to 'now' (or sometime in the past), you've
> effectively prevented him from logging in with the password ---
> more effectively than setting the password to NULL, since if the
> user is still logged in he can just undo that. I don't think we
> really need to do anything more here.

Well, can they undo the VALID UNTIL too? I think at a minimum we need
to document the proper procedure for removing a password. I see NULL as
a more logical way of removing the password rather than playing with
VALID UNTIL.

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