Le 06/04/2010 20:45, Francisco Reyes a écrit : > Kevin Crain writes: > >> How do I configure postgres to lock a user's account after X failed >> login attempts, where X is an arbitrary number. > > Don't think there is a way to do that. > Perhaps using an authentication mechanism that supports that and then > using it to connect to Postgres.. > This page may be of interest: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/auth-methods.html > Yeah, an external authentication tool can probably do that. The internal ones (password, md5, and crypt) won't. >> Also is there a way to limit the number of concurrent connections on a >> per account basis? > > Don't think there is an option for that either. > Sure, there is one: ALTER ROLE your-user WITH CONNECTION LIMIT x; See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/sql-alterrole.html for more details. -- Guillaume. http://www.postgresqlfr.org http://dalibo.com -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin