Re: client authentication towards postgresql in php?

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> If you want only the logging ability, you may try to handle authentication 
> inside the database. I mean: 
> - - connect to PG database as one user (apache)
> - - make every PHP script create a temporary table with username
>   just after establishing the connection: 
>   CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE logged_user (username varchar);
>   INSERT INTO logged_user VALUES ('username');
> - - prepare triggers that log every modification to every table you're
>   interested in. The trigger procedure(s) should get the data from that
>   temporary table and use it to store who's doing the modifications. 
>   If the table does not exists, fire an exception inside the trigger
>   procedure. This will ensure that only logged users will success with
>   modifications.

thanks for this nice workaround :-), I will use it if i can't integrate the apache module "mod_kct" in my setup.
(mod_kct, http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/kerb_pki/)

Daniel


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