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| Ls, any user can change his own password, i haven't found a way of prohibiting this. what about a general user (eg test/test), that is used by many people, one of those people could use alter user (being connected as test/test) the change the password, leaving the rest clueless.. suggestions to prevent this?, i need a general (readonly) user! -- Wim Bertels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDMzqnFj4TNdVKYYsRAvbYAJwODTtIE9nohkQits+fUJ UfmyqUkgCeM3kS EVd5w0Qu/+ejtIfh0aHujTI= =0pq1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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| On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 01:13:37 +0200, Wim Bertels <wim.bertels@khleuven.be> wrote: > Ls, > > any user can change his own password, > i haven't found a way of prohibiting this. > what about a general user (eg test/test), that is used by many people, > one of those people could use alter user (being connected as test/test) the > change the password, leaving the rest clueless.. > > suggestions to prevent this?, i need a general (readonly) user! Tell people not to do this. Use ident authentication. Give each person their own postgres account. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings |