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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: pgsql: Mention that PAM requires the user already exist in the database,
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 01:16:54 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

[email protected] (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> Mention that PAM requires the user already exist in the database, per
> Dick Davies.

I don't recall exactly what Dick suggested, but the patch as applied
seems like fairly useless verbiage.  Exactly which of our other auth
methods allow users who *don't* exist in the database to log in?
And why would anyone find it surprising that this does not happen?

			regards, tom lane



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