On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:19:38PM -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > In short, it's a deterrent to hackers and a convenience to admins. But we Not just that. Unless something big has changed when I wasn't looking, the jdbc driver can't use the .pgpass mechanism yet; but it _can_ use SSL, except that it doesn't have the ability to validate via certs. So there'd be another potential use case for this. I briefly toyed with trying to find someone to implement cert-based authentication, but found I had other things more pressing (so the TODO fell off the end of my list). A -- Andrew Sullivan | ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I remember when computers were frustrating because they *did* exactly what you told them to. That actually seems sort of quaint now. --J.D. Baldwin
