| From: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(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 00:24:13 |
| Message-ID: | dcc563d10908071724q416e88f7x281798c8d760c5db@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Eamonn Martin<mas01em(at)gold(dot)ac(dot)uk> 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?
Yep, it's definitely the case. You could look into using LDAP for
authentication of both your users on regular unix type accounts and
pgsql users.
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