| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Security choices... |
| Date: | 2000-08-04 21:59:34 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.21.0008042316130.1568-100000@localhost.localdomain |
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Philip Warner writes:
> Is there any reason that a security model does not exist for psql that
> allows Unix user 'fred' to log in as PG user 'fred' with no password etc,
> but any user trying to log on as someone other than themselves has to
> provide a password?
Short of someone sitting down and making it happen I don't see any. You'd
only need to implement some sort of fall-through in `pg_hba.conf', which
in my estimate can't be exceedingly hard.
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