Re: rolcanlogin vs. the flat password file
Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>
From: Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2007-10-17T16:09:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Stephen Frost wrote: > * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: >> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com> writes: >>> There's legitimate use for creating a role with NOLOGIN and a password. >> If we think that, then we shouldn't have a message at all. > > I'm not sure I agree with that. I don't agree that there's really a > legitimate use for creating a role w/ NOLOGIN and a password either, for > that matter. Preparing a new user account prior to an employee starting? In my last post we would do that regularly - setup all the accounts etc for the new user, but disable them all until the start date. /D