Greetings,
* Russell Foster (russell.foster.cod...@gmail.com) wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 11:31 AM Stephen Frost wrote:
>
> > Please don't top-post on these lists..
> Didn't even know what that was, had to look it up. Hopefully it is
> resolved. Gmail does too many things for you!
Indeed!
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 11:31 AM Stephen Frost wrote:
> Please don't top-post on these lists..
Didn't even know what that was, had to look it up. Hopefully it is
resolved. Gmail does too many things for you!
> While not exactly the same, of course, they are more-or-less equivilant
> to Unix grou
Greetings,
* Russell Foster (russell.foster.cod...@gmail.com) wrote:
> Right after I sent that I realized that sspi-group was a bad idea, not sure
> if that's even a thing. Tried to cancel as it was still in moderation, but
> it made it through anyways! You are right, it is very windows specific.
Right after I sent that I realized that sspi-group was a bad idea, not sure
if that's even a thing. Tried to cancel as it was still in moderation, but
it made it through anyways! You are right, it is very windows specific. I
can make it windows-group as you said, and resubmit.
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020
Going to take a guess at what you mean by:
I do object to using syntax that makes random assumptions about what a
user name can or can't be.
Are you referring to the "+" syntax in the ident file? I chose that because
somewhere else (hba?) using the same syntax for groups. The quotes are just
ther
Russell Foster writes:
> I understand your concerns overall, and the solution you propose seems
> reasonable. But are we just using "windows-group" because the code is not
> there today to check for a user in another OS group?
It's not clear to me whether Windows groups have exact equivalents in
Russell Foster writes:
> Going to take a guess at what you mean by:
>> I do object to using syntax that makes random assumptions about what a
>> user name can or can't be.
> Are you referring to the "+" syntax in the ident file? I chose that because
> somewhere else (hba?) using the same syntax f
Russell Foster writes:
> I have some code that I've been using that supports adding and
> authenticating Windows groups via the pg_ident file. This is useful for
> sysadmins as it lets them control database access outside the database
> using Windows groups. It has a new
> indicator (+), that sign
I have some code that I've been using that supports adding and
authenticating Windows groups via the pg_ident file. This is useful for
sysadmins as it lets them control database access outside the database
using Windows groups. It has a new
indicator (+), that signifies the identifier is a Windows
