Re: [ADMIN] password administration

I don't know about secure but what I've done is linked the pg_passwd file to
/etc/passwd and then people remote ODBC user can change their database
password via the passwd command (or yppasswd). I've got a RH 5.0 system
running without shadowed password but with NIS. I'm curious what people think
of this from a security standpoint.

Adam Maddock wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> As one who is fairly new (within the last two months) to Postgre, I've
> looked through the Archives for this list a bit and have seen this issue
> addressed a number of times, but no strong solutions posted.  Has anybody
> devised a good/secure way of allowing users to control their own password
> on a Postgre system?
>
> I'm hoping that either somebody already has a solution to this or that
> this will possibly spark some discussion on the topic.
>
> Thanks,
>    Adam
>
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