From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Tony Caduto <tony_caduto@amsoftwaredesign.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Password issue revisited
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:13:46 -0500
Message-ID: <18922.1171998826@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Tony Caduto wrote:
>> What about having a wallet type system where the user can create a pass
>> phrase to protect a generated key that would get
>> loaded once per session. That is how KDE allows users to store passwords.
> If we wanted to do that, we could use the Windows API that's available
> to do this. The idea with the pgpass flie is to have it compatible with
> the unix version.
More to the point, that's far outside the scope of this project. Use a
PAM auth module that you like, or Kerberos or whatever. I'm way past
tired of "let's put yet another authentication technology in libpq" requests.
regards, tom lane
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