Re: [HACKERS] pSQL auth

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 09:45:44AM +0100, Jacopo Silva wrote:
> I am an enthusiastic user of PostgreSQL, and I feel that with little effort
> we could add pam authentication functionality.  What do you think?
> "Pluggable Authentication Modules" are well supported on many architectures,
> eg. Linux or BSD or Solaris, users could authenticate in tens of ways.
> The db administrator's will have choice of thousands of authentication
> methods, e.g. Kerberos, standard Unix UID (/etc/passwd), SMB, NT Domain,
> etc. etc.

This sounds very interesting IMO. 

Michael
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