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Re: Temporarily suspend a user account?

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Felipe Gasper wrote
> Hello,
> 
> 	Is there a way to temporarily suspend a user account?
> 
> 	I would prefer not to revoke login privileges since that will break 
> things that mine pg_users and pg_shadow.
> 
> 	I also am trying to find something that is completely reversible, so 
> something like setting connection limit to 0, which would lose a 
> potentially customized connection limit, doesn’t work.
> 
> 	We do this in MySQL by reversing the password hash then running FLUSH 
> PRIVILEGES; however, that doesn’t seem to work in PostgreSQL/pg_authid 
> as some sort of cache prevents this from taking effect.
> 
> 	Has anyone else solved this issue? Thank you!

Personally untested:

ALTER ROLE role_name VALID UNTIL 'timestamp' --i.e., set that to sometime in
the past

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/interactive/sql-alterrole.html

David J.



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