Re: [HACKERS] Authentication Enhancement Proposal

2011-02-01 Thread Christian Ullrich
* Christopher Hotchkiss wrote: On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Christian Ullrich wrote: * Christopher Hotchkiss wrote: I would like to propose (and volunteer to do if its considered to be a decent idea) to extend the mapping of users to roles in the pg_ident.conf to incorporate groups. This

Re: [HACKERS] Authentication Enhancement Proposal

2011-02-01 Thread Christopher Hotchkiss
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Christian Ullrich wrote: > * Christopher Hotchkiss wrote: > >> I would like to propose (and volunteer to do if its considered to be a >> decent idea) to extend the mapping of users to roles in the >> pg_ident.conf to incorporate groups. This would allow any user who

Re: [HACKERS] Authentication Enhancement Proposal

2011-02-01 Thread Christian Ullrich
* Christopher Hotchkiss wrote: I would like to propose (and volunteer to do if its considered to be a decent idea) to extend the mapping of users to roles in the pg_ident.conf to incorporate groups. This would allow any user who belonged to a particular group in certain authentication systems to

Re: [HACKERS] Authentication Enhancement Proposal

2011-02-01 Thread Christopher.Hotchkiss
On Feb 1, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Christopher Hotchkiss writes: >> I would like to propose (and volunteer to do if its considered to be a >> decent idea) to extend the mapping of users to roles in the pg_ident.conf to >> incorporate groups. > > Um ... there isn't any real distincti

Re: [HACKERS] Authentication Enhancement Proposal

2011-02-01 Thread Tom Lane
Christopher Hotchkiss writes: > I would like to propose (and volunteer to do if its considered to be a > decent idea) to extend the mapping of users to roles in the pg_ident.conf to > incorporate groups. Um ... there isn't any real distinction between users and groups anymore, they're all roles.

[HACKERS] Authentication Enhancement Proposal

2011-01-31 Thread Christopher Hotchkiss
To All, I would like to propose (and volunteer to do if its considered to be a decent idea) to extend the mapping of users to roles in the pg_ident.conf to incorporate groups. This would allow any user who belonged to a particular group in certain authentication systems to be mapped to a role using