Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> writes:
> On 5/14/24 00:57, Rama Krishnan wrote:
>> I recently set a user's password validity to "2024-05-13", but despite
>> this, the user is still able to connect to the database. Is this a bug,
>> or is the "valid until" parameter just for identification purposes,
>> indicating when the password will expire?
> The VALID UNTIL clause sets a date and time after which the role's
> password is no longer valid. If this clause is omitted the password will
> be valid for all time.
The important point there is that the *password* is not usable after
the specified date. If the user logs in via some non-password-based
authentication method, that's fine (and it's on the infrastructure
of that auth method to enforce whatever restrictions it thinks are
appropriate).
regards, tom lane