From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Praneel Devisetty <devisettypraneel@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: User to get locked after three wrong login attempts.
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 13:48:32 -0400
Message-ID: <20180905174832.GO4184@tamriel.snowman.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30655.1536069964@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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<30655.1536069964@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Greetings,
* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Praneel Devisetty <devisettypraneel@gmail.com> writes:
> > We have a requirement , where we require a user to get locked after three
> > wrong login attempts.
>
> The usual recommendation is to configure Postgres to use PAM
> authentication; then you can set up any weird requirements like
> this one in the PAM configuration.
Unfortunately, it's a pain to set up PAM and there's a lot of things in
the PAM stack which can't be used because PostgreSQL doesn't run as
root. We should really have a better solution to this pretty commonly
asked for capability; I'm hoping to find time soon to hack on that.
Thanks!
Stephen
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