Tom Lane wrote: > I don't recall exactly what Dick suggested, but the patch as applied > seems like fairly useless verbiage. Exactly which of our other auth > methods allow users who *don't* exist in the database to log in? > And why would anyone find it surprising that this does not happen?
I think the difference is that PAM carries a user list of its own, and users might be led to believe that it's enough to create a user in the PAM system and it will automatically exist in the database. With the other authentication methods, there is no external user list. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
