Password Security or Alternate way to authenticate

Password Security or Alternate way to authenticate

am 11.06.2007 18:29:07 von mcassiano

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Re: Password Security or Alternate way to authenticate

am 12.06.2007 09:31:09 von Ludek Finstrle

> I would like to hide these information by either protecting the odbc.ini
> file or using an alternate way to authenticate to the postgres database
> (i.e. kerberos, certificates, ssh keys, ....)

There is no way to hide the informations. You can use kerberos instead.
You have to configure your pgsql server to use kerberos auth in
pg_hba.conf.

Regards,

Luf

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