Magnus Hagander <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Tony Caduto wrote: >> What about having a wallet type system where the user can create a pass >> phrase to protect a generated key that would get >> loaded once per session. That is how KDE allows users to store passwords. > If we wanted to do that, we could use the Windows API that's available > to do this. The idea with the pgpass flie is to have it compatible with > the unix version. More to the point, that's far outside the scope of this project. Use a PAM auth module that you like, or Kerberos or whatever. I'm way past tired of "let's put yet another authentication technology in libpq" requests. regards, tom lane
