Re: [HACKERS] How to determine if a user exists..

2001-04-23 Thread Tom Lane
"Dominic J. Eidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to add another authentication mechanism to PostgreSQL... And, > in doing that, I need to verify the existance of an user within PG. Short > of hacking together code from verify_password(), is there any way to check > if a user exists in

Re: [HACKERS] How to determine if a user exists..

2001-04-23 Thread Dominic J. Eidson
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Tom Lane wrote: > If you're trying to do this from the postmaster, I think the only way is > to look at $PGDATA/global/pg_pwd, which is a flat-file version of > pg_shadow. This is what I thought - thanks. -- Dominic J. Eidson "Baruk

[HACKERS] How to determine if a user exists..

2001-04-22 Thread Dominic J. Eidson
I am trying to add another authentication mechanism to PostgreSQL... And, in doing that, I need to verify the existance of an user within PG. Short of hacking together code from verify_password(), is there any way to check if a user exists in postgresql? (The actuall password verification will be