Tom, * Tom Lane (tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > chiru r <chirupg@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > We are looking for User profiles in ope source PostgreSQL. > > For example, If a user password failed n+ times while login ,the user > > access has to be blocked few seconds. > > Please let us know, is there any plan to implement user profiles in feature > > releases?. > > Not particularly. You can do that sort of thing already via PAM, > for example. Ugh, hardly and it's hokey and a huge pain to do, and only works on platforms that have PAM. Better is to use an external authentication system (Kerberos, for example) which can deal with this, but I do think this is also something we should be considering for core, especially now that we've got a reasonable password-based authentication method with SCRAM. Thanks! Stephen
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