Since changing ph_hda.conf file to give users access involves the restart of server, many companies I work(ed) use a bastion host, where users ssh to, and are allowed "somehow" use postgresql.
Still, those users need some login shell. It would be great to give them psql as a login shell (in /etc/passwd). But doing so, will result in psql exiting with error with the usual $ psql psql: error: connection to server on socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on that socket? What would help, is a --idle option, where psql does not exit, stays idle and waits for user to give a \conn command. Something similar to sqlplus /nolog Is anything like that feasible or is there another solution/workaround? Tnx!
