Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > You can authenticate users with PAM, which amounts more or less to the > same thing. I believe though that using PAM against /etc/shadow would require the postmaster to run as root. You need some external authentication server; PAM by itself isn't going to solve it. Maybe LDAP or Kerberos? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin