| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Eamonn Martin <mas01em(at)gold(dot)ac(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Sharing /etc/passwd with PostgreSQL |
| Date: | 2009-08-08 00:27:43 |
| Message-ID: | 20090808002743.GL5290@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Eamonn Martin wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Could someone confirm that the ability to share the Linux system
> /etc/passwd (or shadow) file with PostgreSQL is definitely defunct?
>
> I've searched the archives and, as far as I can tell, this
> functionality was removed after version 7.2 as "few were using it".
> Well we were using it and we have thus been stuck with using version
> 7.2 ever since. We'd really like to finally upgrade to version 8
> but would rather not create separate passwords for everyone unless
> we really have no choice. Is this definitely the case?
You can authenticate users with PAM, which amounts more or less to the
same thing.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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