On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Eamonn Martin<mas01em@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > Could someone confirm that the ability to share the Linux system /etc/passwd > (or shadow) file with PostgreSQL is definitely defunct? > > I've searched the archives and, as far as I can tell, this functionality was > removed after version 7.2 as "few were using it". Well we were using it and > we have thus been stuck with using version 7.2 ever since. We'd really like > to finally upgrade to version 8 but would rather not create separate > passwords for everyone unless we really have no choice. Is this definitely > the case? Yep, it's definitely the case. You could look into using LDAP for authentication of both your users on regular unix type accounts and pgsql users. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
