Re: How to deny user changing his own password?

Trewern, Ben wrote:
> Now I think about this it would be useful:  I have an Access database
> which connects to postgres and the password is saved in the access
> frontend.  If someone (not sure how!) runs ALTER USER ..... WITH
> PASSWORD '....'; via the frontend they could disrupt the connection to
> the postgres backend.  I'm sure a similar situation could happen with
> PHP or similar as you often don't use the postgres security features to
> secure your application.

This is the second worst possible reason I can imagine for a feature
like this. Passwords coded into the frontend ... gosh!


Jan

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