Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] USER Profiles for PostgreSQL

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 01:28:11PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Tom,
>
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> > chiru r <chirupg@gmail.com> 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.

Does LDAP do this too?

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