Magnus Hagander <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > In his scenario, different clients connecting from the same subnet (so > they can't use different pg_hba lines) need to use different > authentication methods. (IIRC, this is an environment coming from > Microsoft SQL Server which does support this) Perhaps he could use the user name or database name to distinguish them in pg_hba.conf? > I think what he's asking for is the ability for a line in the server to > allow multiple authentication methods, and then for the client to be > able to specify which one of these it uses. There's no way we could implement that without a protocol change, and it doesn't seem worth it to me. The idea that the client gets to choose seems like a bad idea from a security standpoint anyhow... regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
