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From: Rui DeSousa <rui@crazybean.net>
To: Rajin Raj <rajin.raj@opsveda.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Deactivate/disable User id in Postgres
Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 10:45:49 -0400
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> On May 4, 2020, at 7:29 AM, Rajin Raj <rajin.raj@opsveda.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any option to deactivate/disable a user id in Postgres?
> I can think of below two options, 
> 
> ALTER USER <user_id> WITH CONNECTION LIMIT 0;
> ALTER USER <user_id> WITH NOLOGIN
> 
> Is there any better approach? 
> 
> Regards,
> Rajin 

Using external authentication is an option too. i.e. using LDAP; disabling the account in LDAP means the user cannot login.=

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