[Babase] Re: babase speed
Leah Gerber
lgerber at duke.edu
Fri May 12 14:42:09 EDT 2006
Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> I have turned on SSL enryption in postgres and
> are now allowing (only) encrypted connections directly
> to the database from the internet. Out of paranoia
> I have configured postgres to authenticate users using
> the Unix PAM method, the same method it uses to authenticate
> when you login to the Unix prompt on papio. This means
> that you do _not_ use the database username/password, you use
> the Unix username/password. I have done this so that
> the full weight of Unix security is behind login authentication.
> The downside is that people must have Unix passwords, and
> have access to papio's Unix prompt. I don't see this
> as much of a downside. It could even be a benefit because,
> if we want to go this route, we have a single username/password
> rather than a Unix password and a Babase database username/password.
> (Then I don't have to be the one setting up passwords.
> Perhaps Hunter can set it up so that there's a Babase
> password that is associated with the database, and/or
> the papio Unix prompt, as desired. This also gives us
> a single username/password that I don't have to administer.)
>
Karl, If there is just one login and password administered through
Hunter how will people get their own personal schema on babase?
Leah
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