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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
Cc: Rama Krishnan <[email protected]>
Cc: Postgres General <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Valid until
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 11:45:09 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <CAJWX+EOModYYe-LDVP_1zceryEd186u=pcaTE6Sb_9XMtjhWKA@mail.gmail.com>
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Adrian Klaver <[email protected]> writes:
> On 5/14/24 00:57, Rama Krishnan wrote:
>> I recently set a user's password validity to "2024-05-13", but despite 
>> this, the user is still able to connect to the database. Is this a bug, 
>> or is the "valid until" parameter just for identification purposes, 
>> indicating when the password will expire?

>      The VALID UNTIL clause sets a date and time after which the role's 
> password is no longer valid. If this clause is omitted the password will 
> be valid for all time.

The important point there is that the *password* is not usable after
the specified date.  If the user logs in via some non-password-based
authentication method, that's fine (and it's on the infrastructure
of that auth method to enforce whatever restrictions it thinks are
appropriate).

			regards, tom lane

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