Re: Security choices...

Philip Warner writes:

> Is there any reason that a security model does not exist for psql that
> allows Unix user 'fred' to log in as PG user 'fred' with no password etc,
> but any user trying to log on as someone other than themselves has to
> provide a password?

Short of someone sitting down and making it happen I don't see any. You'd
only need to implement some sort of fall-through in `pg_hba.conf', which
in my estimate can't be exceedingly hard.


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