Re: Security choices...

At 23:59 4/08/00 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>Philip Warner writes:
>
>> Is there any reason that a security model does not exist for psql that
>> allows Unix user 'fred' to log in as PG user 'fred' with no password etc,
>> but any user trying to log on as someone other than themselves has to
>> provide a password?
>
>Short of someone sitting down and making it happen I don't see any. You'd
>only need to implement some sort of fall-through in `pg_hba.conf', which
>in my estimate can't be exceedingly hard.
>

I'd prefer not to overrule pg_hba.conf; I was thinking along the lines of
adding another security type which falls back to password auth. if it cant
get the username, or if the client process is not a valid user.


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