| From: | Peter Eisentraut <e99re41(at)DoCS(dot)UU(dot)SE> |
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| To: | Zeugswetter Andreas SEV <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at> |
| Cc: | "'hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: AW: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] users in Postgresql |
| Date: | 1999-11-09 09:18:27 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.GSO.4.02A.9911091015190.10112-100000@Iller.DoCS.UU.SE |
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On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Zeugswetter Andreas SEV wrote:
> > speaking. The one
> > feature the createuser script has over the CREATE USER "SQL"
> > command is
> > that you can pick your system ID. Ignoring the question whether or not
> > this has any real purpose, it seems this is almost like
> > rolling dice since
>
> The sysid is essential for one of the authentication methods available in
> PostgreSQL
> (was it ident, I forgot) where the unix system password was used.
Can't be ident, since I am running it with differing user ids. Perhaps
some odd usage of password authentication, but I don't use that too much.
Hence, can anyone comment on this?
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Peter Eisentraut Sernanders vaeg 10:115
peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net 75262 Uppsala
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