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From: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: PAM documentation
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:18:18 -0700
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> 
>>[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?

Never assume, always be explicit.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake
Command Prompt, Inc.

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