Re: RADIUS secret in file

Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>

From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Date: 2010-02-15T16:37:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Attached is the "last step" of the RADIUS authenticaiton as I promised
> Stephen - which allows the reading of the RAIDUS secret from a file
> instead of hardcoded in pg_hba.conf. One reason being you don't want
> the secret in your config file that may be in a shared repository or
> such. IIRC Stephen had some other reason, but I'll leave it to him to
> fill that in :-)

Do we really need this in addition to the existing pg_hba.conf @-include 
functionality?


Stefan