Re: Open 7.3 items

On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 06:48, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > One idea I had was to look for a colon in the username, and if I see
> > one, I assume everything after the colon is a password.  Would that work
> > for you?
> 
> That would definitely work ... but I *really* like your GUC idea ... it
> would allow ppl to change passwords using simple SQL statements remotely,
> which the "old" password stuff didn't allow for ...

I think that the users domain should be kept separate from username if
at all possible. This is how all modern authentication systems work.

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Hannu