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From: Muhammad Imtiaz <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
Cc: Rama Krishnan <[email protected]>
Cc: Postgres General <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Valid until
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 20:52:03 +0500
Message-ID: <CANwR1ORoTGxdhY38Lne8VtFW7fCv6=0NGCd1t6aP6OYLJA_wFg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Hi,
What is the outcome of this query for the specified user? Does the database
contain a value in the rolvaliduntil column?
 SELECT rolname, rolvaliduntil FROM pg_authid;
Regards,
M.Imtiaz

On Tue, 14 May 2024 at 20:45, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 password is no longer valid.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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